Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Unikonta |
| kingdom | Amoebozoa Lühe, 1913 emend. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 |
| phylum | Mycetozoa |
| class | Myxomycetes |
| subclass | Myxogastromycetidae |
| order | Trichiales |
| family | Arcyriaceae |
| genus | Arcyria Hill ex F.H. Wigg. 1780 |
| species | Arcyria afroalpina Rammeloo 1981 |