- The blotched genet is a nocturnal viverrid predator south of the Sahara.
The blotched genet occupies the Afrotropical realm and is found in several ecosystems, including Southern thickets and Acacia-Commiphora woodlands, the Northwest Congolese forest-savanna, the Southwest Congolese forest-savanna, the Guinean forest-savanna, the East Sudanese savanna, and the West Sudanese savanna.