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Adelosphaeria is a monotypic genus in the family Pleurotheciaceae Subclass Savoryellomycetidae

of terrestrial and freshwater fungi in the monotypic family Conioscyphaceae and the monotypic order Conioscyphales. They are found on decayed wood, leaves, or bamboo stems. Except for Conioscypha japonica which was isolated from dog skin fragments and hair in 2017. Adelosphaeria catenata Réblová, in Réblová, Seifert, Fournier & Štěpánek, Persoonia 37: 63 (2015)

History
Family Pleurotheciaceae was introduced by Réblová et al. (2016c) in Pleurotheciales. Ten genera, i.e. Adelosphaeria, Brachysporiella, Helicoon, Melanotrigonum, Phaeoisaria, Phragmocephala, Pleurotheciella, Pleurothecium, Sterigmatobotrys and Taeniolella, were originally included in this family (Réblová et al. 2016c).

Distribution and habitats
It is has a cosmopolitan distribution, worldwide. Including places such as Peru,

Species
There was 16 morphological species (described by Liu et al. 2019b) in 2019. Then 18 species, as accepted by Species Fungorum;

Adelosphaeria catenata Réblová (2015); Pleurotheciaceae
 * Conioscypha aquatica