Felis bieti Milne-Edwards 1892

Felis bieti Milne-Edwards 1892, Rev. Gen. Sci. Pures Appl., 3: 671.

Type Locality: "Batang Tatsien-Lou", restricted by Pousargues (1898:358) to "environ de Tongolo et de Ta-tsien-lou" [China, Sichuan].

Vernacular Names: Chinese Mountain Cat.

Synonyms: Felis pallida Büchner 1892; Felis subpallida Jacobi 1923 .

Distribution: China (E Qinghai and N Sichuan; see He et al., 2004).

Conservation: CITES – Appendix II; IUCN – Vulnerable.

Discussion: Haltenorth (1953) suggested chutuchta and vellerosa belonged in silvestris (followed here). F. bieti, margarita, nigripes, and chaus are considered closely related by Hemmer (1978), Collier and O'Brien (1985), Salles (1992), and Bininda-Emonds et al. (1999).