Moth Observations Database: California Department of Food and Agriculture (MOD_CDFA-MOD_CDFA)

Moth Observations Database: California Department of Food and Agriculture is a series of observed moth specimens from the California Department of Food and Agriculture collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Christopher Grinter (Christopher.Grinter@dmns.org)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN
Collection Statistics
  • 1,646 occurrence
  • 0 georeferenced
  • 1,541 (94%) identified to species
  • 47 families
  • 466 genera
  • 795 species
  • 875 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Family Distribution
Click on the occurrence record counts within the parenthesis to return the records for that family
  • Adelidae (11)
  • Argyresthiidae (7)
  • Autostichidae (5)
  • Batrachedridae (2)
  • Bedelliidae (1)
  • Blastobasidae (5)
  • Bucculatricidae (5)
  • Carposinidae (4)
  • Choreutidae (6)
  • Coleophoridae (12)
  • Cosmopterigidae (11)
  • Cossidae (9)
  • Crambidae (89)
  • Depressariidae (27)
  • Drepanidae (3)
  • Erebidae (109)
  • Eriocraniidae (2)
  • Galacticidae (2)
  • Gelechiidae (127)
  • Geometridae (157)
  • Glyphipterigidae (2)
  • Gracillariidae (3)
  • Heliodinidae (2)
  • Heliozelidae (1)
  • Lasiocampidae (10)
  • Limacodidae (5)
  • Lyonetiidae (1)
  • Momphidae (4)
  • Nepticulidae (3)
  • Noctuidae (536)
  • Nolidae (9)
  • Notodontidae (21)
  • Oecophoridae (5)
  • Plutellidae (3)
  • Pterophoridae (29)
  • Pyralidae (104)
  • Saturniidae (6)
  • Scythrididae (2)
  • Sesiidae (30)
  • Sphingidae (10)
  • Thyatiridae (2)
  • Tineidae (26)
  • Tischeriidae (2)
  • Tortricidae (202)
  • Yponomeutidae (2)
  • Ypsolophidae (11)
  • Zygaenidae (9)