Ekanayaka et al. (2019b) created the order Dactylosporales, which is here synonymized with Sclerococcales (erected by Réblová et al. 2017) based on morphological diagnoses and molecular phylogenetic data. Ekanayaka et al. (2019b) may not have been aware of the order Sclerococcales, as they failed to cite Réblová et al. (2017) in their treatment of Dactylospora. Réblová et al. (2017) also introduced the family Sclerococcaceae, which in turn is a synonym of Dactylosporaceae (Diederich et al. 2018). Dactylospora is considered a synonym of Sclerococcum after D. parasitica, the type of Dactylospora, was found to be closely related to S. sphaerale, the type of Sclerococcum (Diederich et al. 2018; Pino-Bodas et al. 2017).