Petaurista alborufus Milne-Edwards 1870

Petaurista alborufus Milne-Edwards 1870, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 70: 342.

Type Locality: Moupin [= Baoxing, Sichuan, China].

Vernacular Names: Red and White Giant Flying Squirrel.

Subspecies::

Subspecies Petaurista alborufus subsp. alborufus Milne-Edwards 1870

Subspecies Petaurista alborufus subsp. castaneus Thomas 1923

Subspecies Petaurista alborufus subsp. lena Thomas 1907

Subspecies Petaurista alborufus subsp. leucocephalus Hilzheimer 1905

Subspecies Petaurista alborufus subsp. ochraspis Thomas 1923

Distribution: Taiwan, S and C China.

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: Includes lena, which was treated as a separate species by Kuntz and Ming (1970); see Jones (1975). Provisionally includes pectoralis (Corbet and Hill, 1992). Reviewed from the literature by Day (1988). Subspecies provisionally recognized by Corbet and Hill (1992). Chromosomes described by Oshida et al. (1993).