This paper describes two new species of Neotropical butterflies: Yphthimoides blanquita Barbosa, Marín and Freitas sp. nov., from the dry forest of northwestern Colombia, and Yphthimoides nareta Barbosa & Freitas sp. nov. from northeastern Brazil, based on morphological and molecular data. Adult morphology, including wing shape and pattern as well as male genitalia, is described in detail. Furthermore, analysis of the mitochondrial CoxI ‘barcode’ showed that both new species are quite distinct from all similar Yphthimoides species and additionally, the ‘renata clade’ is defined based on the presence of cornuti in the aedeagus.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:22CA85FF-9682-4016-A300-AB11C71CEDA2