Sicista caucasico Vinogradov, 1925 . Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1925:584.

TYPE LOCALITY: Russia, N Caucasus, Krasnodarskiy Kray (Kuban Prov.), Maykop (Maikop) District, 7000-9000 feet .

DISTRIBUTION: NW Caucasus; distribution figured by Sokolov et al. (1987a).

COMMENTS: Sokolov et al. (1981 b, 1987b) gave karyological and phallic characters that distinguished this species from S. kluchorica and S. concolor, S. armenica (Sokolov and Baskevich, 1988), and S. kazbegica (Sokolov et al., 1986b) . See also comment under Sicista, and in Corbet (1984:25).