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Probably forms superspecies with Pallid Scops-Owl (Otus brucei), African Scops-Owl (Otus senegalensis), Eurasian Scops-Owl (Otus scops) and Flammulated Owl (Psiloscops flammeolus). Sometimes treated as conspecific with Eurasian Scops-Owl (Otus scops), and has been considered conspecific both with African Scops-Owl (Otus senegalensis) and with Pallid Scops-Owl (Otus brucei), or to include Mindanao Highland Scops-Owl (Otus mirus), Mindoro Scops-Owl (Otus mindorensis), Mantanani Scops-Owl (Otus mantananensis), Ryukyu Scops-Owl (Otus elegans), Simeulue Scops-Owl (Otus umbra) and Enggano Scops-Owl (Otus enganensis) as subspecies. All now shown to be specifically distinct on basis mainly of vocalizations.

Proposed subspecies nicobaricus and distans (Thailand) synonymous with modestus, although nicobaricus may prove to be a valid taxon. According to some, even modestus itself is possibly inseparable from malayanus. Original specimen of Nicobar Scops-Owl (Otus alius) initially assigned to subspecies nicobaricus (= modestus) of Oriental Scops-Owl (Otus sunia).

The following 9 subspecies are recognised:

• sunia (Hodgson, 1836)   -  Northern Pakistan east to Bangladesh, and northern India.
• rufipennis (Sharpe, 1875)   -  Southern India.
• leggei Ticehurst, 1923   -  Sri Lanka.
• modestus (Walden, 1874)   -  Assam (south to Brahmaputra R), Myanmar, northern and western Thailand, Indochina. Also Andamans and central Nicobars (Camorta).
• malayanus (Hay, 1845)   -  Southern China (Yunnan east to Guangdong).
• stictonotus (Sharpe, 1875)   -  South-eastern Siberia, Sakhalin, north-eastern China, northern Korea.
• japonicus Temminck & Schlegel, 1844   -  Japan.
• distans Friedmann & Deignan, 1939   -  Northern and eastern Thailand and Indochina.
• nicobaricus (Hume, 1876)   -  Nicobar Islands.

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