Strickeria is a genus of fungi within the class Sordariomycetes. The genus was circumscribed by Gustav Wilhelm Körber in Parerga Lichenol. on page 400 in 1865. The genus name of Strickeria is in honour of Otto Julius Felix Stricker (1818–1881?), who was a German doctor and botanist (Lichenology) and also was an Entomologist. He worked as a district physician in Stettin and Breslau.