Gallowayella aphrodites is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), foliose (leafy) lichen in the family Teloschistaceae.

[2] In 2002, Søchting, Ingvar Kärnefelt, and Kondratyuk proposed transferring the taxon to genus Xanthomendoza as one of 16 members of the X. ulophyllodes species complex, based on preliminary molecular phylogenetic analysis of this group.

The apothecia are 0.6–3.0 mm in diameter with a constriction at the base, and have a flat to somewhat concave disc that is slightly darker in colour than the apothecial margins.

Spermogonia are visible on the thallus surface as solitary reddish-orange warts; they contain bacilliform (rod-shaped) spermatia that are 3.5–4.8 by 0.9–1.0 μm.

[8] Several lichens were noted as closely associated species from the type collection in Cyprus, including X. parietina, X. candelaria, Phaeophyscia orbicularis, Lecanora chlarotera, Physconia distorta, P. enteroxantha, Physcia semipinnata, P. aipolia, Caloplaca cerina, Lecidella euphorea, and various species from the genera Candelariella, Orthotrichum, and Rinodina.