Scarce swift

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| name = Scarce swift

| image = Schoutedenapus myoptilus 9175019 (cropped).jpg

| image_caption = Schoutedenapus myoptilus in Ngorongoro District, Tanzania

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2019 |title=Schoutedenapus myoptilus |volume=2019 |page=e.T157470471A157471619 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T157470471A157471619.en |access-date=13 November 2021}}

| genus = Schoutedenapus

| parent_authority = De Roo, 1968

| species = myoptilus

| authority = (Salvadori, 1888)

| synonyms =

}}

The scarce swift (Schoutedenapus myoptilus) is a species of swift in the family Apodidae.

It has a disjunct range of presence throughout the Afromontane : Cameroon line, Albertine Rift montane forests, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique.

It is the only species in the genus Schoutedenapus. Schouteden's swift (Schoutedenapus schoutedeni) was previously considered a distinct species, but was found to be a darker juvenile or sub-adult scarce swift subspecies chapini.{{ cite journal | last=Fishpool | first=L.D.C. | year=2019 | title=A reappraisal of Schouteden's Swift | journal=Bulletin of the African Bird Club | volume=26 | issue=1 | pages=38–57 }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Owlet-nightjars, treeswifts, swifts | work=World Bird List Version 9.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/swifts/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=25 June 2019 }}