The steppe pika belongs to the subgenus <Pika>. This species has always been considered not to be distributed in my country. In September 2008, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Locust and Rat Control Headquarters collected specimens for the first time in Karamay in northwestern Xinjiang; the Sichuan Academy of Forestry Sciences also collected specimens in 2017 and 2018, and confirmed its taxonomic status through molecular analysis. In Xinjiang, my country, its distribution area is also very limited, and the only confirmed distribution area is the Tacheng area. According to records (Hoffmann, 2009), although it is called the steppe pika, it is mainly distributed in semi-desert shrub areas and almost does not live in grasslands and deserts. It was widely distributed in the Pleistocene, including the British Isles, France, Bulgaria, Poland and Romania. It gradually shrank and formed the current distribution pattern in the mid-18th century.
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