Ypthima impura, the impure ringlet (known in Afrikaans as the vuil-ringetjie), is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.

It is close to Ypthima doletaThe wings above brown; both wings with a narrow dark submarginal band and a double dark marginal line; eye-spot area of the forewing subelliptical, sharply defined distally; hindwing above with an eye-spot in cellule 2 and sometimes 1 or 2 in cellule 1 c, the area round them not defined, beneath with three eye-spots, a double one in 1 c and one eachin 2 and 6.

Adults are on wing year round with peak in early summer and autumn in southern Africa.

[3] The butterfly usually has three ocelli on the underside of their hindwing, although these may not appear during the dry season.

[5] Females are usually more sedentary than males, with stouter abdomens.