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Footnote 
1 Contribution from the University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO 80309 and the Martin 
Marietta Corporation, Denver, CO 80201. 
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SCIENTIFIC NOTE 
LECTOTYPE DESIGNATION FOR 
FRANKLINIELLA TRITICI CLARA MOULTON 
This taxon (Moulton, 1948, Rev. de Entomologia 19: 87) was described 
as a pale color form in a key to the species of Frankliniella, but neither the 
description of the type materials nor the designation of the type was given. 
Arnaud and Lee (1973, Occ. Papers Calif. Acad. Sci. 105: 35) enumerated 
the syntype series of 44 specimens which were so determined by Moulton 
and presently deposited in the California Academy of Sciences. This taxon 
was synonymized with the nominal species by Jacot-Guillarmod (1974, Ann. 
Cape Prov. Mus. Nat. Hist. 7: 827). 
The entire series of syntypes was scrutinized. After 6 misidentified spec¬ 
imens were weeded out, the lectotype was selected and 37 paralectotypes 
from Illinois, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Florida and Cuba were 
inscribed. F. tritici clara ranges from brownish yellow to pale yellow in 
color with limited grayish brown wash on head, and usually with abdominal 
brownish blotchings, which are, however, practically indiscernible on some 
of the teneral specimens or on many of the mature specimens from the Far 
South (southern Texas and southern Florida) and Caribbean islands. A pale 
yellow female with weak abdominal blotchings from Arkansas (Monticello, 
flowers of buckeye, July 5, 1940, Delzie Demaree, #93, Lot 41-3161) was 
selected and so labelled for the lectotype. 
K. Sakimura, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI 96818 
