Sicista pseudonapaea Strautman, 1949 . Vestn. Akad. Nauk Kazakh. SSR, 5:109.

TYPE LOCALITY: E Kazakhstan, Altai Mtns, N slope of Narymskiy Range, Katon-Karagay .

DISTRIBUTION: E Kazakhstan, Taiga of S Altai Mtns; see Kuznetsov (1965) and Sludskii (1977).

COMMENTS: Sokolov et al. (1982, 1987b) gave karyological, spermatozoal, and phallic characters that distinguished this species from S. napaea and S. betulina . S. pseudonapaea is provisionally recognized here, but requires further documentation, and the inclusion of other data sets, to establish its specific status.