Red-cheeked squirrel

Red-cheeked squirrels are species of squirrels in the genus Dremomys in the subfamily Callosciurinae.^[2] The six species which are all found only in Asia are listed as "Least Concern" by the IUCN.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8]}

• The red-throated squirrel (Dremomys gularis) is distributed in parts of southeastern Asia, in areas of the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam and southern central Yunnan in China.^[8] It is sympatric with another member of the same genus, D. rufigenis, but lives at higher attitudes^[1] - 2,500 to 3,000 metres (1.6 to 1.9 mi) in the case of the type specimen.^[8]
• The orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel (Dremomys lokriah) is found in Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan.
• Perny's long-nosed squirrel (Dremomys pernyi) is found in China, India, Myanmar, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
• The red-hipped squirrel (Dremomys pyrrhomerus) is found in China and Vietnam.
• The Asian red-cheeked squirrel (Dremomys rufigenis) is found in Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.^[9]

Red-cheeked squirrels Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Recent
Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel (Dremomys lokriah)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Subfamily:	Callosciurinae
Genus:	Dremomys Heude, 1898
Type species
Sciurus pernyi A. Milne-Edwards, 1867
Species
D. gularis (Osgood, 1932)[1] D. lokriah (Hodgson, 1836) D. pernyi (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867) D. pyrrhomerus (Thomas, 1895) D. rufigenis (Blanford, 1878)

The Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Dremomys everetti), found in Indonesia and Malaysia, was moved from this genus to Sundasciurus.