Let I * and I ⊞ be the classes of all classical infinitely divisible distributions and free infinitely divisible distributions, respectively, and let Λ be the Bercovici–Pata bijection between I * and I ⊞ . The class type W of symmetric distributions in I ⊞ that can be represented as free multiplicative convolutions of the Wigner distribution is studied. A characterization of this class under the condition that the mixing distribution is 2-divisible with respect to free multiplicative convolution is given. A correspondence between symmetric distributions in I ⊞ and the free counterpart under Λ of the positive distributions in I * is established. It is shown that the class type W does not include all symmetric distributions in I ⊞ and that it does not coincide with the image under Λ of the mixtures of the Gaussian distribution in I *. Similar results for free multiplicative convolutions with the symmetric arcsine measure are obtained. Several well-known and new concrete examples are presented.