Genus Gymnopsidia Shewell, 1987

Gymnopsidia Shewell, 1987: 1182 .

Type species: Gymnoprosopa inflaticornis Allen, 1926; by original designation.

Gymnopsidia: Pape, 1996: 89 [catalogue].

Bright colored small flies (4.0–5.0 mm in length). Frontal vitta matt yellow, parallel-sided, 3× widened as one as parafrontalia; flagellomere 3.5× as long as pedicel; fr not reaching below antennal base, almost not divergent; orb 1+3–4; genae covered by long upcurved bristle-like setae; lower margin of head almost not shortened; lunule bare. r 5 open; abdominal tergites with distinct black bands at hind surfaces of tergites; sexual dimorphism practically absent. One Nearctic species.