Moth Observations Database: LA County Museum of Natural History (MOD_LACM-MOD_LACM)

Moth Observations Database: LA County Museum of Natural History is a series of observed moth specimens from the LA County Museum of Natural History 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
  • 4,097 occurrence
  • 0 georeferenced
  • 3,803 (93%) identified to species
  • 43 families
  • 582 genera
  • 1,372 species
  • 1,551 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 (3)
  • Alucitidae (1)
  • Autostichidae (3)
  • Batrachedridae (1)
  • Blastobasidae (2)
  • Carposinidae (1)
  • Coleophoridae (6)
  • Cosmopterigidae (19)
  • Cossidae (60)
  • Crambidae (578)
  • Depressariidae (13)
  • Drepanidae (16)
  • Epipyropidae (1)
  • Erebidae (357)
  • Eriocraniidae (4)
  • Gelechiidae (159)
  • Geometridae (1419)
  • Glyphipterigidae (5)
  • Heliodinidae (3)
  • Lasiocampidae (59)
  • Limacodidae (8)
  • Micropterigidae (1)
  • Momphidae (3)
  • Noctuidae (419)
  • Nolidae (6)
  • Oecophoridae (9)
  • Opostegidae (3)
  • Plutellidae (8)
  • Prodoxidae (15)
  • Pterophoridae (61)
  • Pyralidae (438)
  • Saturniidae (34)
  • Sesiidae (40)
  • Sphingidae (58)
  • Stratiomyidae (3)
  • Thyatiridae (4)
  • Tineidae (67)
  • Tischeriidae (3)
  • Tortricidae (147)
  • Tridentaformidae (1)
  • Yponomeutidae (3)
  • Ypsolophidae (13)
  • Zygaenidae (4)