Latitudinal range: -37.0° to 33.7°

Habitats: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (1), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (1), tropical/subtropical savanna (1)

Found in 6 samples

Australia: Blanche Cave (Third Chamber) (Late Pleistocene)

Burkina Faso: Cascades Region (2011)

Lesotho: Sehonghong (BAS) (Late Pleistocene)

South Africa: Tonqani

Thailand: Wat Phai Lom (1969)

Tunisia: Meninx (Holocene)

See also Tyto alba, Tyto novaehollandiae