Order Rodentia - Family Sciuridae Author Wilson, Don E. Author Reeder, DeeAnn text 2005 The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 2 754 818 book chapter 0-8018-8221-4 10.5281/zenodo.7316535 Belomys pearsonii (Gray 1842) [Sciuropterus] pearsonii Gray 1842 , Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, 10: 263 . Type Locality: " India , [ Assam ,] Dargellan" (= Darjeeling). Vernacular Names: Hairy-footed Flying Squirrel . Subspecies: : Subspecies Belomys pearsonii subsp. pearsonii Gray 1842 Subspecies Belomys pearsonii subsp. blandus Osgood 1932 Distribution: Sikkim and Assam ( India ) to Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan ( China ); Bhutan ; Indochina, and N Burma (see Agrawal and Chakraborty, 1979 ). Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (nt). Discussion: Subspecies tentatively recognized by Corbet and Hill (1992) , who synonymized this monotypic genus with Trogopterus .