Veniliornis is a genus of birds in the woodpecker family Picidae. They are native to the Neotropics.

Taxonomy: The genus was introduced by the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854. The word Veniliornis combines the name of the Roman deity Venilia with the Greek word ornis meaning "bird". The type species was designated as the blood-colored woodpecker (Veniliornis sanguineus) by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855.

The genus contains the following 14 species:

Image	Common name	Scientific name	Distribution
120px]]	Scarlet-backed woodpecker	Veniliornis callonotus	Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru
120px]]	Yellow-vented woodpecker	Veniliornis dignus	Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela
120px]]	Bar-bellied woodpecker	Veniliornis nigriceps	Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
120px]]	Little woodpecker	Veniliornis passerinus	South America east of the Andes
120px]]	Dot-fronted woodpecker	Veniliornis frontalis	Argentina and Bolivia.
120px]]	White-spotted woodpecker	Veniliornis spilogaster	Brazil, Uruguay, eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina.
120px]]	Blood-colored woodpecker	Veniliornis sanguineus	Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana
120px]]	Red-rumped woodpecker	Veniliornis kirkii	Costa Rica south and east to Ecuador, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago
120px]]	Red-stained woodpecker	Veniliornis affinis	eastern Brazil and the Amazon Basin.
120px]]	Chocó woodpecker	Veniliornis chocoensis	Colombia and Ecuador.
120px]]	Golden-collared woodpecker	Veniliornis cassini	northern Brazil, the Guianas, Venezuela and far eastern Colombia.
120px]]	Yellow-eared woodpecker	Veniliornis maculifrons	eastern Brazil.
120px]]	Striped woodpecker	Veniliornis lignarius – formerly in Picoides	southwestern South America.
120px]]	Checkered woodpecker	Veniliornis mixtus – formerly in Picoides	eastern South America.