Apodemus flavicollis - #564

S England and Wales; on the continent from N Spain through most of Europe to 64E N in S Finland and S Sweden, and south to S Italy, Balkan region, and Greece; east through Belarus and Ukraine to Urals; throughout Turkey and east to W Armenia, Zagros Mtns of W Iran, and south to Syria, Lebanon, and C and N Israel. The species also occurs on some NE Aegean Isls off W coast of Turkey and S Greece, Adriatic islands, and Corfu in the Mediterranean. Absent from most of Iberian Peninsula and W France, Iceland, Ireland, Balearic Isls, and islands of Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, and Cyprus; also does not occur in most of the Caucasus (except WArmenia) where it is apparently replaced by the closely related A. ponticus.