The genus was
circumscribed by
Alexander Zahlbruckner in 1928, with
Bogoriella subpersicina assigned as the
type species. Subsequent work showed that
Bogoriella has nomenclatural
priority over
Mycomicrothelia, so the species formerly placed in
Mycomicrothelia were transferred to
Bogoriella. Hongsanan and colleagues later treated Zahlbruckner's
type,
B. subpersicina, as a
synonym of
Bogoriella decipiens, and confirmed the genus as part of the family
Trypetheliaceae. Using an expanded
molecular dataset (principally
mitochondrial small-subunit
ribosomal DNA) together with
morphology, Hongsanan and colleagues showed that the tropical
taxa previously distributed between
Bogoriella and
Novomicrothelia form several distinct
lineages. To stabilise usage, they merged
Novomicrothelia into
Bogoriella (i.e.
Novomicrothelia sensu lato nested within
Bogoriella), and also brought the type species of
Ornatopyrenis and
Distothelia into
Bogoriella as generic synonyms. In practical terms this means
Ornatopyrenis queenslandica and
Distothelia isthmospora are now treated within
Bogoriella. One species formerly in
Distothelia (
D. angulata) was excluded and placed in the separate genus
Schummia based on its contrasting
ascospore morphology. Their analyses further indicated that the broader "
Bogoriella group" is heterogeneous: a
basal,
paraphyletic grade (retained conservatively as the separate genus
Pseudobogoriella) and a more distant
clade corresponding to
Bogoriella sensu stricto (in the narrow sense). Because only a minority of species then had sequence data, the authors used morphology-based "binning" to infer placements for unsampled taxa. They showed that ascospore features traditionally used to separate genera—such as whether spores are (divided into many internal chambers), 1-septate, or have thickened rather than true septa—do not align neatly with the phylogeny. On that basis they treated
Bogoriella (in its revised sense) as encompassing 18 morphologically defined species, with four species represented by sequence data at the time. ==Species==