Boaedon olivaceus is a species of snake in the family Lamprophiidae.

Eli Greenbaum and colleagues described the taxonomy of this species as being "relatively stable for over a century".

[2] The junior synonym Boodon poensis was described by Albert Günther in 1888,.

[3] George Albert Boulenger synonymized the two species, classifying it in the genus Boodon.

[6] In 1974, M. C. Stucki-Stirn described a subspecies B. olivaceus stirnensis, but it was synonymized with the species itself in 2014.