Subgenus Phrosinella s. str.

Bright colored small or midsized flies (3.5–7.5 mm in length). Frontal stripe as wide or slightly more widened than one of parafrontalia; lower margin of head strongly shortened; ♂ fore tarsi not modified, without specialized setae; R 1 bare dorsally; abdominal tergites silvery dusted, with distinct hind dark spots and (or) stripes. Nine species in Palearctic and northern part of Oriental (Jammu & Kashmir) regions.