See text Sciurus delesserti Gervais, 1841 Sciurus sublineatus Waterhouse, 1838 Sciurus trilineatus Kelaart, 1852 Tamoides sublineatus Phillips, 1935 The Nilgiri striped squirrel (Funambulus sublineatus) is a threatened species of rodent, a small squirrel (Sciuridae) from rainforests in the southern Western Ghats, including the Nilgiris, in Peninsular India.

It formerly included Funambulus obscurus from Sri Lanka as a subspecies, at which point the English name of the "combined species" also was dusky striped squirrel (a name now restricted to the Sri Lankan species).

[3] Later it was merged with the Sri Lankan obscurus, then regarded as a subspecies of Funambulus sublineatus.

In 2012, a review found that the two were highly distinct and recommended that they should be recognized as separate species.

The species is confined to wet humid forests either in the Western Ghats and Nilgiri hills (and surrounding areas such as around Kodaikanal in India)