Belomys pearsonii (Gray 1842)

[Sciuropterus] pearsonii Gray 1842, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 10: 263.

Type Locality: " India, [Assam,] Dargellan" (= Darjeeling).

Vernacular Names: Hairy-footed Flying Squirrel.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Belomys pearsonii subsp. pearsonii Gray 1842

Subspecies Belomys pearsonii subsp. blandus Osgood 1932

Distribution: Sikkim and Assam (India) to Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan (China); Bhutan; Indochina, and N Burma (see Agrawal and Chakraborty, 1979).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt).

Discussion: Subspecies tentatively recognized by Corbet and Hill (1992), who synonymized this monotypic genus with Trogopterus .