Spermophilus suslicus (Giildenstaedt, 1770) . Nova Comm. Acad. Sci. Petropoli, 14:389.

TYPE LOCALITY: " ...in campis vastissimus tanaicensibus precipue urbes et Tambov " [Voronezh area, Voronezhsk. Obi., Russia].

DISTRIBUTION: Steppes of E and S Europe, including Poland, E Rumania, Ukraine north to Oka River and east to the Volga River (Russia).

SYNONYMS: averini (Migulin, 1927); boristhenicus (Pusanov, 1958); guttatus (Pallas, 1770); guttulatus Schinz, 1845; leucopictus (Dondorff, 1792); meridioccidentalis (Migulin, 1927); odessana Nordmann, 1842; ognevi (Reshetnik, 1946); volhynensis (Reshetnik, 1946).

COMMENTS: Subgenus Spermophilus Gromov et al. (1965:212) . See also comment under pygmaeus .