[1] It was thought to be monotypic genus with only one species, Microcera coccophila Desm.

platyspora Sousa da Câmara (1920) being reclassified as Microcera coccophila.

Microcera coccophila was initially found on the bark of young living trees of Salix and Fraxinus in France.

[7] Lombard et al. then further investigated phylogenetic relationships of Microcera based on DNA sequence data and reported that it constitutes a lineage distantly related to Fusarium but closely related to Fusicolla and Macroconia.

nov. and Podonectria novae-zelandiae Dingley, (both in Podonectriaceae family, Pleosporales order) as well as Microcera kuwanaspidis X.L.