Mickelia is a genus of ferns in the family Dryopteridaceae, subfamily Elaphoglossoideae, in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I).

Fronds never differentiated into bathyphylls and acrophylls as in the bolbitidoid genera Lomagramma, Arthrobotrya, and Teratophyllum.

Sori acrostichoid (covering the entire abaxial surface of the leaf); Paraphyses absent.

The genus Mickelia was erected in 2010, following a molecular phylogenetic study of the bolbitidoid ferns, based on DNA sequences of the chloroplast intergenic spacers trnL-F and rps4-trnS.

[6] The mesoamerican species of Bolbitis were given an updated treatment in 1995[7] and detailed biogeographic information for these was published in 2004.

[8] Mickelia was first described in a synopsis of the genus that did not repeat much of the information published in previous works.