Red-cheeked squirrel

{{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 (Osgood, 1932){{citation| title=Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference| edition=3rd| editor-last = Wilson| editor-first = Don E. | editor2-last = Reeder| editor2-first = DeeAnn M.| url = https://www.departments.bucknell.edu/biology/resources/msw3/browse.asp?id=12400539| publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press| year=2005| access-date = 15 August 2009}}

D. lokriah (Hodgson, 1836)

D. pernyi (A. Milne-Edwards, 1867)

D. pyrrhomerus (Thomas, 1895)

D. rufigenis (Blanford, 1878)}}

Red-cheeked squirrels are species of squirrels in the genus Dremomys in the subfamily Callosciurinae.{{MSW3|id=12400537}} The six species which are all found only in Asia are listed as "Least Concern" by the IUCN.{{cite iucn |author=Duckworth, J.W. |date=2017 |title=Dremomys rufigenis |volume=2017 |page=e.T6824A22256057 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T6824A22256057.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}{{cite iucn|author=Smith, A. T.|author2=Johnston, C. H.|name-list-style=amp|year=2008|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/6823/0|title=Dremomys pyrrhomerus|access-date=6 January 2009}}{{cite iucn|author=Lunde, D.|author2=Molur, S.|name-list-style=amp|year=2008|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/6822/0|title=Dremomys pernyi|access-date=6 January 2009}}{{cite iucn|author=Molur, S.|year=2008|url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/details/6821/0|title=Dremomys lokriah|access-date=6 January 2009}}{{cite iucn |author=Tizard, R.J |date=2016 |title=Dremomys everetti |volume=2016 |page=e.T6820A22255505 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-2.RLTS.T6820A22255505.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}{{Cite iucn | author = Lunde, D. | title = Dremomys gularis | volume = 2008 | page = e.T136313A4273170 | date = 2008 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T136313A4273170.en | access-date = 24 December 2017}}

• 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. It is sympatric with another member of the same genus, D. rufigenis, but lives at higher attitudes - {{convert|2500|to|3000|m|mi}} in the case of the type specimen.
• 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.Don E. Wilson, DeeAnn M. Reeder, Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Vol. 12 (2005), p. 780

The Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Dremomys everetti), found in Indonesia and Malaysia, was moved from this genus to Sundasciurus.