Compiled from Kelly Richers' California Moth Specimen Database. Kelly has been compiling the database since 1996 from literature sources, museum collections, and (I believe) novel collections. These lists are probably not comprehensive (if such a thing is possible for such a diverse group of organisms), but given Kelly's dedication and the degree of sampling in the state, it's probably pretty close at the state and regional level, and approaching that degree at the county level, and thus I have marked them as comprehensive on iNat. All errors are my own, and if you find any, please let me know.
Notes On Missing Names
Many of the names in the CMSD have not bee included in the iNat lists I've created. I have tried to import every name from the Catalogue of Life, BugGuide, and uBio, so any names that are still missing are not present in those sources. I have also tried to manually check the remainder against http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species_list.php, I've tried to manually add any taxa that have a species page on MPG, and I've checked for simple misspellings of the kind the Google can catch. For the remainder, here are some of the reasons the names are missing:
A full listing of all the names I was not able to import can be found here.
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 15198 genus: Tolype species: distincta sex: location: Frazer Mt Pk county: Los Angeles collector: R.H.Leuschner coll_date: Sep 8 68 specim... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 15199 genus: Tolype species: lowriei sex: location: 4244 A. de la Encinal county: Los Angeles collector: P & S Russell coll_date: spe... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 15202 genus: Gloveria species: arizonensis sex: location: 2.5 mi SSW Valyermo county: Los Angeles collector: N. McFarland coll_date: Sep 9... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 15201 genus: Gloveria species: medusa sex: location: Castaic county: Los Angeles collector: L.Ventura coll_date: Sep 2 85 specimen_loc: U... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 15200 genus: Phyllodesma species: americana californica sex: location: Lynwood county: Los Angeles collector: R.L. Langston coll_date: Aug... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 2830 genus: Malacosoma species: californica fragile sex: M location: Malibu county: Los Angeles collector: L. Martin coll_date: May 13 35 s... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 2829 genus: Malacosoma species: constricta austrina sex: M location: Topanga county: Los Angeles collector: H. Notman coll_date: Jun 19 57 ... More