Cribraria is a genus of slime molds from the group of Myxogastria.

[2] The fruiting bodies are usually pedunculated sporangia, a calyculus may be present or absent.

Mostly dark, clearly visible dictydine granules are found especially close to the ribs of the peridia, the calyculus and the spores.

[4] The genus is distributed worldwide, about two-thirds of the species are, however, [neotropic] ch.

[4] The genus was first described in 1794 by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, type species is Cribraria rufescens .