Laetodon

Body length: 6–9 mm. Small, metallic green to blue flies, with long antennae and oval abdomen. Head about as wide as thorax or slightly wider. Face convex; narrower than an eye. Lateral oral margins weakly produced. Vertex flat. Occiput ventrally narrow, dorsally widened. Eye pilose. Eye margins in male converging at level of frons, with mutual distance 2 to 4 times as large as width of antennal fossa. Antennal fossa about as wide as high. Antenna about as long as to longer than distance between antennal fossa and anterior oral margin; basoflagellomere longer than scape, oval; bare. Postpronotum pilose. Scutellum semicircular; with calcars, which may be spatulate (widened and dorsoventrally flattened). Anepisternum weakly sulcate; pilose anteriorly and posteriorly, widely bare in between. Anepimeron entirely pilose. Katepimeron convex; smooth; bare. Wing: vein R4+5 with posterior appendix; vein M1 perpendicular to vein R4+5; postero-apical corner of cell r4+5 rectangular, with small appendix; crossvein r-m located between basal 1/6 to 1/5 of cell dm. Abdomen oval, about 1.5 to 2 times as long as wide. Tergites 3 and 4 fused. Sternite 1 pilose or bare. Male genitalia: phallus unfurcate, projecting slightly beyond apex of hypandrium; hypandrium with basal part bulb-like; epandrium without ventrolateral ridge; surstylus shallowly furcate, with long posterior process.

Described species: 5. Nearctic (4 species) and Neotropical (1 species).