Coluber, Coniophanes, Coronella, Elaps, Glaphyrophis, Natrix, Opheomorphus, Umbrivaga Erythrolamprus is a genus of colubrid snakes native to Central America, the Caribbean, and South America.

Erythrolamprus previously contained just six species, mostly coral snake mimics.

They are ground snakes, with lifestyles ranging from fossorial (burrowing) to terrestrial to semi-aquatic, and in habitats ranging from rainforests to savannas to the mountainous páramo, up to 3,500 m (11,500 ft) above sea level.

[4] Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Erythrolamprus.

The brightly colored, ringed patterns of some of the snakes of the genus Erythrolamprus resemble those of sympatric coral snakes of the genus Micrurus, and it has been suggested that this is due to mimicry.