Leopardus tilcayo is a felid described as a new species in 2026. The paper gives its type locality near Arapata in Bolivia's Nor Yungas, and a UMSA report also describes records from the Yungas forests of La Paz.
The species description reports a light-brown back, darker along its centre and paler toward the limbs. Large, irregular dark rosettes on the back and flanks are mostly open or partly closed and do not join.
It is recorded from the Yungas forests of La Paz, Bolivia. The type locality in the species description is near Arapata in Nor Yungas.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.