Phyllosticta was introduced by German mycologist
Persoon in 1818 and species
Phyllosticta convallariae was designated as the type species (Donk 1968). Since
Phyllosticta is distinct from other genera in that family, Seaver (1922) treated it in the family
Phyllostictaceae of the order Phyllostictites. Nevertheless,
Phyllosticta was accommodated in the family
Botryosphaeriaceae (in order
Botryosphaeriales C.L. Schoch et al.) in several major studies (e.g. Crous et al. 2006; Schoch et al. 2006; Liu et al. 2012). However, the phylogenetic analyses by Wikee et al. (2013a) allocated
Phyllosticta in a
clade sister to
Botryosphaeriaceae. As a result, the genus was accepted in the family
Phyllostictaceae, in the order Botryosphaeriales. However, many of these names have been synonymised (van der Aa and Vanev 2002). In 2022, 1499 species are accepted in the genus (Bánki et al. 2022). ==Species==