sentences:  French mycologist Pierre Bulliard described "Boletus aereus" in 1789.The species epithet is the Latin adjective "aerěus", meaning "made with bronze or copper".His countryman Lucien Quélet transferred the species to the now-obsolete genus "Dictyopus" in 1886, which resulted in the synonym "Dictyopus aereus", while René Maire reclassified it as a subspecies of "B. edulis" in 1937.