Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| kingdom | Chromalveolata Adl et al., 2005 |
| superphylum | Alveolata Cavalier-Smith, 1991 - alveolate |
| phylum | Apicomplexa Levine, 1970 |
| class | Aconoidasida Mehlhorn,Peters & Haberkorn, 1980 |
| order | Piroplasmorida Wenyon,1926 |
| family | Theileriidae du Toit,1918 |
| genus | Theileria Bettencourt, França & Borges, 1907 |
| species | Theileria dromedarii |