Rubrisciurus Ellerman, 1954 . In Laurie and Hill, Land of Mammals of New Guinea, Celebes, and Adjacent Islands, p. 94.

TYPE SPECIES: Sciurus rubriventer Müller and Schlegel, 1844 .

SYNONYMS: Tomeutes Thomas, 1915 .

COMMENTS: Tribe Callosciurini (Moore, 1959:174) . Sometimes considered a subgenus of Callosciurus; see Laurie and Hill (1954:93) and Corbet and Hill (1992); but see also Moore (1959) and McLaughlin (1984:273), who considered it a distinct genus.