Helmutiopsis is a small genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Physciaceae. It comprises three species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), crustose lichens found in the Northern Hemisphere. They have a thin, grey to whitish-grey thallus divided into and with numerous fruiting bodies (apothecia). Chemically, "Helmutiopsis" lichens contain atranorin, gyrophoric acid, and lecanoric acid.
The genus was circumscribed in 2021 by the lichenologists Sergey Kondratyuk, László Lőkös, and Jae-Seoun Hur, who assigned "H. atrocinerea" as the type species. The genus name honours the Austrian lichenologist Helmut Mayrhofer, "in recognition of his extensive contribution to the knowledge of rinodinoid lichens and to lichenology in general".
"Helmutiopsis" contains a branch of a subclade of fungi identified in molecular phylogenetics analysis as being genetically distant from "Rinodina" (in the strict sense). It is morphologically similar to "Rinodina", except for having "Pachysporaria"-type of (with thickened spore walls), and its different secondary chemistry. Kondratyuk and colleagues' division of "Rinodina" into smaller segregate genera has not been accepted by all authors.