Taenioptynx

Taenioptynx is a genus of typical owls, or true owls, in the family Strigidae, that inhabits Asia.

Taenioptynx
Collared owlet
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Strigiformes
Family:	Strigidae
Genus:	Taenioptynx Kaup, 1848
Type species
Noctua brodiei Burton, 1836
Species
T. brodiei T. sylvaticus

The collared owlet and the Sunda owlet were formerly included in the genus Glaucidium. They were moved to the resurrected genus Taenioptynx based on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2019.^[1][2] The genus Taenioptynx had been introduced by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup in 1848 with the collared owlet as the type species.^[3] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek tainia meaning "band" or "stripe" with ptunx meaning "owl".^[4]

Its members are:^[2]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Taenioptynx brodiei (Burton, 1836)	Collared owlet	oriental Asia
	Taenioptynx sylvaticus (Bonaparte, 1850)	Sunda owlet	Greater Sundas