The orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel (Dremomys lokriah) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.
In 1916, Thomas and Wroughton described a species from the Manipur, India and Chin Hills as D.
[3] Later that year, Wroughton also described a subspecies of D. lokriah as D. l. bhotia from the specimens collected from sedochen of Sikkim Himalaya, and Manipur.
Cai and Zhang in 1980 described another subspecies D. l. motuoensis and Li and Wang described D. l. nielamuensis in 1992 from China.
Molecular studies on the validation of these subspecies are still to be performed.This squirrel article is a stub.