The name Verrucaria subfuscella has often been used in the past for the species now called Placopyrenium canellum, P. fuscellum and V. polysticta in Belgium, Luxembourg and northern France

Lit.: Ertz: 45, Mü4: 111, NL84: 18, NL87: 23, NL97: 58, John (1986: 144), John (1990b: 245), Zschacke (1933: 277).