Two sorediate counterparts of Fuscopannaria leucosticta (Tuck.) P. M. Jørg. are described: F. coerulescens from Nepal and New Guinea and F. sorediata from eastern North America and Japan. Pannaria cyanolepra (Tuck.) P. M. Jørg. comb. nov., a sorediate species in the F. praetermissa group restricted to California, is transferred to Fuscopannaria, and a key to all known sorediate species of this genus is given