Speerschneidera is a single-species genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Leprocaulaceae.

[1] The genus was circumscribed by Italian botanist Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon in 1861, with Speerschneidera euploca as the type species.

[2] This lichen was originally described by Edward Tuckerman in 1858 as Physcia euploca.

[3] It is a crustose lichen found in the southern United States and Mexico.

[4] The genus name Speerschneidera honours German doctor, teacher and naturalist Julius Ferdinand Speerschneider (1825–1903).