| Name | Melanelia stygia (Linnaeus) Esslinger |
| Authorship | (Linnaeus) Esslinger |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Melanelia Esslinger |
| GUID | urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:342556 |
| Citation | 1978 Mycotaxon 7(1): 47 |
| Holdings | 49 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Melanelia stygia (Linnaeus) Esslinger |
| Identification made in | [no date] (43), 2001 (2), 2010 (1), 2013 (2), 2018 (1) |