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: 5350 genus: Tolype species: distincta sex: M location: Frazier Mt Rd county: Ventura collector: K. Richers coll_date: Aug 18 90 specimen_lo... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 5351 genus: Tolype species: lowriei sex: M location: Frazier Mt Rd county: Ventura collector: K. Richers coll_date: Sep 7 91 specimen_loc: ... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 37404 genus: Gloveria species: medusa sex: location: Sespe Cr at Derrydale Cr county: Ventura collector: Tom Dimock coll_date: Jul 26 96 s... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 37402 genus: Phyllodesma species: americana californica sex: location: above Ojai county: Ventura collector: R.H. Leuschner coll_date: Mar... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 5354 genus: Malacosoma species: californica fragile sex: M location: Ojai county: Ventura collector: W.E. Simonds coll_date: Aug 14 55 spec... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 37405 genus: Malacosoma species: constricta austrina sex: location: Ojai county: Ventura collector: W.E. Simonds coll_date: Jun 25 57 spec... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 5352 genus: Malacosoma species: disstria fm thoracicoides sex: M location: Frazier Mt Rd county: Ventura collector: K. Richers coll_date: M... More