Microtus subterraneus (de Selys-Longchamps, 1836)

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

TYPE LOCALITY: Belgium, Liege, Waremme .

DISTRIBUTION: Bulk of range from N and C France through C Europe to Ukraine and the Don River, south through Yugoslavia and the Balkans into N Greece (European range mapped in Niethammer, 1982g); isolated populations in NE Russia (see Zagorodnyuk, 1989).

SYNONYMS: atratus , capucinus, dacius , dinaricus, ehiki , fusca , hungaricus, incertoides , incertus , klozeli , kupelwieseri , martinoi, matrensis, mustersi (of Martino, 1937, not Hinton, 1926), neuhauseri, nyirensis , rufofuscus , transsylvanicus , transvolgensis, ukrainiens, volaensis, wettsteini, zimmermanni .

COMMENTS: Subgenus Terricola , subterraneus species group sensu Chaline et al. (1988) and Zagorodnyuk (1990). Reviewed by Corbet (1978c, 1984) and Niethammer ( 1982g). Taxonomy, geographic distribution, and morphological variation in context of defining species in subgenus Terricola reported by Zagorodnyuk (1989, 1992); karyotypic information presented by Sablina et al. (1989), Zima (1986), and Zima and Krâl (1984a); biochemical comparisons among M. subterraneus , M. felteni , and other voles documented by Gill et al. (1987). Synonyms referenced according to Zagorodnyuk (1989), who speculated that dacius is a separate species.