The blue-rumped pitta (Hydrornis soror) is a species of bird in the family Pittidae.

It is found in Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical seasonal forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

The blue-rumped pitta was described by the English naturalist Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay in 1881 from a specimen collected in Saigon, Cochinchina.

[2] The specific epithet soror is Latin for "sister" (that is "closely related").