The White-fronted Scops-owl ranges from southern Myanmar through Thailand to the Malay Peninsula. It has a white forehead and brows and uses forest understorey.
It has a white forehead and eyebrows, dark chestnut upperparts, and paler underparts marked with dark spots.
It is recorded in the understorey of evergreen and semi-evergreen forest. The stomach of one Myanmar specimen contained insects, chiefly moths.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.