The Northern treeshrew (Tupaia belangeri), is a species of treeshrew in the Tupaiidae family. It is native to Southeast Asia. 1, the German zoologist Johann Andreas Wagner first used the specific name Cladobates belangeri for treeshrews that had been collected in Pegu during a French expedition to Southeast Asia. These specimens were described by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1834 in whose opinion they did not differ sufficiently from Tupaia tana to assign a specific rank.