Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| system | Opisthokonta Cavalier-Smith, 1987 |
| kingdom | Fungi Whittaker - fungi |
| divisio | Basidiomycota R. T. Moore - club fungi |
| subphylum | Agaricomycotina Doweld |
| class | Agaricomycetes |
| subclass | Agaricomycetidae |
| order | Boletales - boletes |
| family | Boletaceae Chevall. |
| genus | Afroboletus Pegler & T.W.K. Young |
| species | Afroboletus elegans Heinem. & Rammeloo |