This flying squirrel ranges from the eastern Himalaya into southwestern China. Specialist accounts describe a gray head and an unspotted back.
The head is gray and the back has no spots. The specialist account gives this as a feature distinguishing it from spotted relatives.
It is reported from mountain forests such as oak-rhododendron and conifer forest. It nests in oak hollows or builds a fern nest in a tree.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.