. "LC" . . . . . . . "iucn3.1" . "The red-cheeked ground squirrel (Spermophilus erythrogenys) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is commonly referred to as the red-cheeked ground souslik and there are several recognized subspecies. It is found in central Asia. Spermophilus brunnescens (Belyaev, 1943), Spermophilus heptneri (Vasil\u2019eva, 1964) and Spermophilus ungae (Martino, 1923) are accepted as synonyms."@en .