Ptilopsis

Ptilopsis is a genus of typical owls, or true owls, in the family Strigidae, that inhabits Africa. Its members are:^[2]

Genus Ptilopsis – Kaup, 1848 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Northern white-faced owl	Ptilopsis leucotis (Temminck, 1820)	Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo and Uganda.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Southern white-faced owl	Ptilopsis granti (Kollibay, 1910)	southern half of Africa	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

Ptilopsis
Northern white-faced owl
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Strigiformes
Family:	Strigidae
Genus:	Ptilopsis Kaup, 1848
Type species
Strix leucotis[1] Temminck, 1820
Species
P. leucotis P. granti