Hylopetes

Hylopetes is a genus of flying squirrels. There are about 10 species.^[2][3]

Hylopetes Temporal range: Late Miocene to Recent
Palawan flying squirrel (Hylopetes nigripes)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Family:	Sciuridae
Subfamily:	Sciurinae
Tribe:	Pteromyini
Genus:	Hylopetes Thomas, 1908
Type species
Sciuropterus everetti[1] Thomas, 1908 (= Sciruopterus spadiceus Blyth, 1847)
Species
See text

Species include:

• Particolored flying squirrel - H. alboniger (Hodgson, 1836)
• Bartel's flying squirrel - H. bartelsi Chasen, 1939
• Hainan flying squirrel - H. electilis (Allen, 1925)
• Palawan flying squirrel - H. nigripes (Thomas, 1893)
• Indochinese flying squirrel - H. phayrei (Blyth, 1859)
• Jentink's flying squirrel - H. platyurus (Jentink, 1890)
• Arrow flying squirrel - H. sagitta (Linnaeus, 1766)
• Sipora flying squirrel - H. sipora Chasen, 1940
• Red-cheeked flying squirrel - H. spadiceus (Blyth, 1847)
• Sumatran flying squirrel - H. winstoni (Sody, 1949)