The species was originally described in 1931 as a species of Sphaceloma, and in 1943 was transferred to Elsinoë by Ahmés Pinto Viégas and Anna Eliza Jenkins.
This organism was first identified as a member of the Sphaceloma genus in 1931, but was subsequently reassigned to the Elsinoë genus by researchers Ahmés Pinto Viégas and Anna Eliza Jenkins in 1943.