See text Xanthoria is a genus of lichenized fungi in the family Teloschistaceae.

[4]: 134  They can be identified by their characteristic squamulose morphology with distinctive "fairy cups".

As of October 2023[update], Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 19 species of Xanthoria.

& Yatsyna (2013) were determined to be the same species as X. parietina in a 2020 publication.

[8] The taxon once known as Xanthoria elegans is now Rusavskia elegans, the type species of genus Rusavskia.