Dendrobates benedicta (Brown, Twomey, Pepper, and Sanchez-Rodriguez, 2008) Ranitomeya benedicta, sometimes called the blessed poison frog,[1] is a species of poison dart frogs found in the lowland rainforest of the Pampas del Sacramento in southern Loreto and eastern San Martín Region, northeastern Peru.

[1][5] Ranitomeya benedicta is one of the larger species of thumbnail poison dart frogs.

It has a red head and a large snout to vent length which helps distinguish it from other Ranitomeya such as the smaller red-backed poison frog.

In some populations, however, the reticulated pattern might not appear, instead showing some of the limbs or parts of the dorsum only being uniformly blue.

After the eggs hatch, the adult frog carries the tadpoles to different pools of water in bromeliad plants.