The olinguito /oʊlɪŋˈɡiːtoʊ/[3] (Bassaricyon neblina) is a mammal of the raccoon family Procyonidae that lives in montane forests in the Andes of western Colombia and Ecuador.

The specific name neblina is Spanish for fog or mist, referring to the cloud forest habitat of the olinguito.

[3][7][8] The animal is an omnivorous frugivore[9] that eats mainly fruits (such as figs), but also insects and nectar; this diet results in feces the size of small blueberries.

[2][8][9] Specimens of the species have been identified from the Andean cloud forest stretching from western Colombia to Ecuador, at elevations of 1,500 to 3,000 metres (4,900 to 9,800 ft), which is the highest known range of any member of the genus Bassaricyon.

[15] The olinguito is found in the northern Andes at altitudes between 1,500 and 2,750 metres (4,920 and 9,020 ft)[2] above sea level, which is much higher than the habitats for other olingos.

[17] Comparison of DNA from two olinguito subspecies to other olingo and related species was carried out on the basis of genetic dissimilarity derived from Kimura modeling of differences in base-pair composition of mitochondrial cytochrome b.

[2] This split apparently occurred about 3.5 million years ago, suggesting that the earliest diversification of the genus took place in northwestern South America shortly after the ancestors of olingos first invaded the continent from Central America as part of the Great American Interchange.