Moth Observations Database: UC Berkeley (MOD_UCB-MOD_UCB)

Moth Observations Database: UC Berkeley is a series of observed moth specimens from the UC Berkeley collection. This database is a project of Kelly Richers and Christopher Grinter and is hosted by the Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network.
Contact: Peter Oboyski (essig.museum@gmail.com)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 25 November 2013
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: SCAN
Collection Statistics
  • 10,580 occurrence
  • 56 (0.53%) georeferenced
  • 9,912 (94%) identified to species
  • 64 families
  • 803 genera
  • 2,259 species
  • 2,447 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
  • Acanthopteroctetidae (4)
  • Adelidae (117)
  • Alucitidae (12)
  • Argyresthiidae (11)
  • Attevidae (1)
  • Autostichidae (36)
  • Batrachedridae (15)
  • Bedelliidae (12)
  • Blastobasidae (28)
  • Bucculatricidae (80)
  • Carposinidae (14)
  • Choreutidae (66)
  • Coleophoridae (65)
  • Copromorphidae (6)
  • Cosmopterigidae (179)
  • Cossidae (31)
  • Crambidae (526)
  • Depressariidae (344)
  • Douglasiidae (10)
  • Drepanidae (17)
  • Dryadaulidae (3)
  • Elachistidae (90)
  • Epermeniidae (8)
  • Erebidae (143)
  • Eriocraniidae (36)
  • Gelechiidae (1037)
  • Geometridae (907)
  • Glyphipterigidae (33)
  • Gracillariidae (370)
  • Heliodinidae (59)
  • Heliozelidae (60)
  • Hepialidae (1)
  • Incurvariidae (10)
  • Lasiocampidae (9)
  • Lyonetiidae (17)
  • Micropterigidae (2)
  • Momphidae (19)
  • Nepticulidae (45)
  • Noctuidae (2123)
  • Nolidae (6)
  • Notodontidae (88)
  • Nymphalidae (1)
  • Oecophoridae (99)
  • Opostegidae (5)
  • Plutellidae (56)
  • Prodoxidae (93)
  • Psychidae (6)
  • Pterolonchidae (21)
  • Pterophoridae (149)
  • Pyralidae (426)
  • Saturniidae (29)
  • Schreckensteiniidae (14)
  • Scythrididae (58)
  • Sesiidae (107)
  • Sphingidae (153)
  • Stratiomyidae (1)
  • Tineidae (304)
  • Tischeriidae (81)
  • Tortricidae (2078)
  • Tridentaformidae (5)
  • Uraniidae (1)
  • Yponomeutidae (17)
  • Ypsolophidae (122)
  • Zygaenidae (4)