Pitymys subterraneus (de Selys-Longchamps, 1836) . Essai Monogr. sur les Campagnols des Env. de Liege., p. 10.

TYPE LOCALITY: Belgium, Liege, Waremme .

DISTRIBUTION: N. and C. France through C. Europe to Ukraine and the Don River, south to Balkans, but true southern limits uncertain. Isolated populations in N.E. Russia.

COMMENT: Subgenus Pitymys; see Chaline, 1974. Revised by Niethammer, 1972, Bonn. Zool. Beitr., 23:290-309.

ISIS NUMBER: 5301410008080042001 as Microtus subterraneus .