Caprettia

Caprettia is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Monoblastiaceae.^[2] The genus was circumscribed by Augusto Chaves Batista and Heraldo da Silva Maia in 1965, with Caprettia amazonensis assigned as the type species.^[3]

Caprettia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Monoblastiales
Family:	Monoblastiaceae
Genus:	Caprettia Bat. & H.Maia (1965)
Type species
Caprettia amazonensis Bat. & H.Maia (1965)
Species
C. amazonensis C. confusa C. goderei C. lichexanthotricha C. neotropica C. nyssogenoides C. ornata
Synonyms[1]
Porinella R.Sant. (2004) Porinula Vězda (1975)

The genus name of Caprettia is in honour of Corrado Capretti (1915–1960), an Italian botanist and professor at University of the Andes (Venezuela) in 1956.^[4]

Species

• Caprettia amazonensis Bat. & H.Maia (1965)^[3]
• Caprettia confusa Lücking & Sipman (2008)
• Caprettia goderei Yeshitela, Eb.Fisch., Killmann & Sérus. (2009)
• Caprettia lichexanthotricha Aptroot & M.F.Souza (2021)^[5]
• Caprettia neotropica Lücking & Sérus. (2003)
• Caprettia nyssogenoides Sérus. & Lücking (2003)
• Caprettia ornata (R.Sant. & Vězda) Lücking & Sérus. (2008)