Hylopetes alboniger (Hodgson, 1836) . J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 5:231.

TYPE LOCALITY: "central and Northern regions of Nipâl" [Nepal] .

DISTRIBUTION: Nepal and Assam (India) to Sichuan, Yunnan, and Hainan (China) and Indochina.

SYNONYMS: chianfengensis Wang and Lu, 1966; leachii (Gray, 1837); orinus (G. Allen, 1940); turnbulli (Gray, 1838).