Alticola macrotis Radde, 1862 . Reise in den Süden von Ost-Sibierien, 1:196.

TYPE LOCALITY: Siberia, S Krasnoyarsk Krai, E Sayan Mtns .

DISTRIBUTION: From Altai (Siberia and Xinjiang) and Sayan Mtns east and northeast through N Mongolia and Lake Baikal region to Region of Olekminski in Yakutsk, Russia.

SYNONYMS: altaica, fetisovi, vicina, vinogradovi .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Alticola . Ognev (1964) placed this species in the subgenus Alticola, but Gromov and Polyakov (1977) and Pavlinov and Rossolimo (1987) listed it under the subgenus Aschizomys . We follow Ognev until the phylogenetic position of lemminus, the type-species of Aschizomys, is defined relative to species of Alticola .