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: 34172 genus: Eumorpha species: achemon sex: location: Petaluma county: Sonoma collector: C.A. Toschi coll_date: Aug 15 55 specimen_loc: UC... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 34174 genus: Hyles species: lineata sex: location: Sonoma county: Sonoma collector: C.W. Anderson coll_date: in 1937 specimen_loc: UCB URL... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 34167 genus: Manduca species: quinquemaculatum sex: location: Sonoma county: Sonoma collector: H. Otis coll_date: Aug 25 1897 specimen_loc... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 34166 genus: Manduca species: sexta sex: location: Petaluma county: Sonoma collector: R.N. Moon coll_date: Jun 17 41 specimen_loc: UCD URL... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 34168 genus: Sphinx species: perelegans sex: location: St Helena Trout Farm county: Sonoma collector: not given coll_date: Jul 22 66 speci... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 34169 genus: Sphinx species: sequoiae sex: location: county: Sonoma collector: not given coll_date: Jul 20 1898 specimen_loc: LACM URL: h... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 34170 genus: Smerinthus species: cerisyi sex: location: Santa Rosa county: Sonoma collector: not given coll_date: Mar 23 39 specimen_loc: ... More
CALIFORNA MOTH SPECIMEN DATABASE RECORD DETAILS seq_num: 34171 genus: Pachysphinx species: occidentalis sex: location: Petaluma county: Sonoma collector: W.R. Bauer coll_date: May 11 40 specimen_... More