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: 1382 genus: Embola species: powelli sex: F location: Santa Cruz Is, Central Valley county: Santa Barbara collector: J. Landry coll_date: Ma... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 29992 genus: Lithariapteryx species: jubarella sex: location: Santa Cruz Is county: Santa Barbara collector: J. Powell coll_date: Mar 16 6... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 29991 genus: Lithariapteryx species: abroniaeella sex: location: U.C.Goleta county: Santa Barbara collector: J. Powell coll_date: Jul 17 6... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 29993 genus: Lithariapteryx species: elegans sex: location: Vandenburg AFB county: Santa Barbara collector: D. Knapp coll_date: in 2014 sp... More