Eothenomys olitor Thomas 1911

Eothenomys olitor Thomas 1911, Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1911 (100): 50.

Type Locality: China, Yunnan, Chao-tung-fu (= Zhaotong Xian), 6700 ft [2042 m] (Kaneko, 1999 b, provided additional information) .

Vernacular Names: Black-eared Red-backed Vole.

Synonyms: Eothenomys hypolitor Wang and Li 2000 .

Distribution: NE Yunnan at the type locality and SW Yunnan between the Mekong and Salween River valleys, 1800-3350 m (Kaneko, 1996 b).

Conservation: IUCN – Lower Risk (lc).

Discussion: E. chinensis species group. The smallest Eothenomys in body size. Hinton (1926 a) allocated olitor to the subgenus Eothenomys, as did Corbet and Hill (1992), but others have placed it in Anteliomys (G. M. Allen, 1940; Gromov and Polyakov, 1977) or in the subgenus Caryomys (Pavlinov et al., 1995 a) . G. M. Allen (1940) extended the range to W Yunnan, but Kaneko (1996 b) explained why this record is not olitor; inclusion of hypolitor observes the summary of Ye et al. (2002).