Spermophilus franklinii (Sabine, 1822) . Trans. Linn. Soc. London, 13:587.

TYPE LOCALITY: None specified. Restricted by Preble (1908: 165) to Carlton House, Saskatchewan, Canada .

DISTRIBUTION: N Great Plains; Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba (Canada), south to Kansas, Illinois, and Indiana (USA).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Poliocitellus (Hall, 1981:397) . Gromov et al. (1965:155) considered Poliocitellus a subgenus of the genus lctidomys.