The taxon was first described in 1899 by Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton as the separate species "Apodemus hirtensis", but a year later in a specific review of mouse species it was reclassified as only a subspecies of the already described "Apodemus sylvaticus".
The taxon was first described in 1899 by Gerald Edwin Hamilton Barrett-Hamilton as the separate species "Apodemus hirtensis". A year later in a specific review of mouse species it was reclassified as a sub-species of the common fieldmouse "Apodemus sylvaticus".