Psittacara is a genus of parakeets in the tribe Arini.

Species of the genus are found in Central and South America, the Caribbean and one species reaching the southern United States.

Many of the Psittacara species are kept in aviculture or as companion parrots, where they are commonly known as conures.

Molecular phylogenetic studies had found that Aratinga was non-monophyletic so in order to create monophylectic genera James Van Remsen Jr. and collaborators proposed in 2013 that Aratinga should be split and a group of species moved to the resurrected genus Psittacara.

[2] The genus had been introduced in 1825 by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors with the white-eyed parakeet as the type species.