''Veladyris'' is a genus of clearwing ( ithomiine) butterflies, named by Fox in 1945. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family,

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species ha ...

. It contains only one species, ''Veladyris pardalis'', which is found in

Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

and

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

Subspecies

*''V. p. pardalis'' (Ecuador) *''V. p. aurea'' Lamas, 1980 (Ecuador) *''V. p. christina'' Lamas, 1980 (Peru) *''V. p. cytharista'' (Hewitson, 1874) (Peru) *''V. p. totumbra'' (Kaye, 1919) (Peru) There is one more undescribed subspecies from Peru.

References

Ithomiini Nymphalidae of South America Monotypic butterfly genera Nymphalidae genera {{Danainae-stub