{{Short description|Genus of rodents}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = Red-cheeked squirrels | fossil_range = Early Pleistocene to Recent | image = Orange-bellied Himalayan Squirrel Khangchendzonga Biosphere Reserve West Sikkim India 25.10.2015.jpg | image_caption = Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel (''Dremomys lokriah'') | taxon = Dremomys | authority = Heude, 1898 | type_species = ''Sciurus pernyi'' | type_species_authority = A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''D. gularis'' <small>(Osgood, 1932)<ref name = "World">{{MSW3| id=12400539 |heading=''Dremomys gularis''|access-date = 15 August 2009}}</ref></small><br/> ''D. lokriah'' <small>(Hodgson, 1836)</small><br/> ''D. pernyi'' <small>(A. Milne-Edwards, 1867)</small><br/> ''D. pyrrhomerus'' <small>(Thomas, 1895)</small><br/> ''D. rufigenis'' <small>(Blanford, 1878)</small>}}
'''Red-cheeked squirrels''' are species of squirrels in the genus '''''Dremomys''''' in the subfamily Callosciurinae.<ref>{{MSW3|id=12400537 |heading = Genus ''Dremomys'' }}</ref> The six species which are all found only in Asia are listed as "Least Concern" by the IUCN.<ref name=iucn_rufi>{{cite iucn |author=Duckworth, J.W. |date=2017 |title=''Dremomys rufigenis'' |volume=2017 |article-number=e.T6824A22256057 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T6824A22256057.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref><ref name=iucn_pyrr>{{cite iucn |author=Smith, A.T. |author2=Johnston, C.H. |year=2016 |errata=2017 |title=''Dremomys pyrrhomerus'' |volume=2016 |article-number=e.T6823A115084598 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T6823A22255933.en |access-date=6 October 2025}}</ref><ref name=iucn_pern>{{cite iucn |author=Lunde, D. |author2=Molur, S. |year=2016 |errata=2017 |title=''Dremomys pernyi'' |volume=2016 |article-number=e.T6822A115084426 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T6822A22255797.en |access-date=6 October 2025}}</ref><ref name=iucn_lokr>{{cite iucn |author=Molur, S. |year=2016 |errata=2017 |title=''Dremomys lokriah'' |volume=2016 |article-number=e.T6821A115084234 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T6821A22255622.en |access-date=6 October 2025}}</ref><ref name=iucn_ever>{{cite iucn |author=Tizard, R.J |date=2016 |title=''Dremomys everetti'' |volume=2016 |article-number=e.T6820A22255505 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T6820A22255505.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref><ref name=iucn_gula>{{cite iucn |author=Laginha Pinto Correia, D. |year=2019 |title=''Dremomys gularis'' |volume=2019 |article-number=e.T136313A22255420 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T136313A22255420.en |access-date=6 October 2025}}</ref>
*The red-throated squirrel (''Dremomys gularis'') is distributed in parts of southeastern Asia, in areas of the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam and southern central Yunnan in China.<ref name=iucn_gula/> It is sympatric with another member of the same genus, ''D. rufigenis'', but lives at higher attitudes<ref name = "World"/> - {{convert|2500|to|3000|m|mi}} in the case of the type specimen.<ref name=iucn_gula/> *The orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel (''Dremomys lokriah'') is found in Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan. * Perny's long-nosed squirrel (''Dremomys pernyi'') is found in China, India, Myanmar, Taiwan, and Vietnam. *The red-hipped squirrel (''Dremomys pyrrhomerus'') is found in China and Vietnam. *The Asian red-cheeked squirrel (''Dremomys rufigenis'') is found in Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.<ref>{{MSW3 |id=12400556 |page=780 |heading=''Dremomys rufigenis''}}</ref>
The Bornean mountain ground squirrel (''Dremomys everetti''), found in Indonesia and Malaysia, was moved from this genus to ''Sundasciurus''.
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