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

TYPE LOCALITY: Moupin [= Baoxing, Sichuan, China] .

DISTRIBUTION: Taiwan, S and C China.

SYNONYMS: alborusus (Hilzheimer, 1906); castaneus Thomas, 1923; leucocephalus (Hilzheimer, 1906); lena Thomas, 1907; ochraspis Thomas, 1923; pectoralis Swinhoe, 1871.

COMMENTS: 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 by Day (1988).