Paranectriella (Henn. ex Sacc. & D. Sacc.) Magnus., Botan. Zbl. 98: 587 (1905).

= Araneomyces Höhn., Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.- naturw. Kl., Abt. 1 118: 894 (1909).

= Paranectria subgen. Paranectriella Henn. ex Sacc. & D. Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 17: 812 (1905).

MycoBank number: MB 3708; Index Fungorum number: IF 3708; Facesoffungi number: FoF 07887; 8 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), molecular data unavailable.

Type species: Paranectriella juruana (Henn.) Höhn., Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-naturw. Kl., Abt. 1 119: 899 (1910).

Notes: Paranectriella was introduced to accommodate Paranectriella juruana a tropical hyperparasitic. Araneomyces was accepted as the asexual state of Paranectriella (Sutton 1984; Wu et al. 1997). Wijayawardene et al. (2014a) synonymized Araneomyces under Paranectriella.