Proiridomyrmex

Proiridomyrmex Temporal range: Eocene, 51–46  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Proiridomyrmex rotundatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Tribe:	incertae sedis
Genus:	† Proiridomyrmex Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002
Type species
Proiridomyrmex vetulusa Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2003, 1862
Diversity [1]
2 species

Proiridomyrmex is an extinct genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae. The genus contains two species; Proiridomyrmex vetulus, described in 2002 where its fossils were discovered in the United States, and Proiridomyrmex rotundatus, described in 2015. ^{[2] [3]}

References

1. Bolton, B. (2014). "†Proiridomyrmex". AntCat. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
2. Dlussky, G. M.; Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2003 [2002]. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Formation Green River and some other Middle Eocene deposits of North America. Russ. Entomol. J. 11(4): 411-436 (page 416, fig. 3, described)
3. Lapolla, John S; Greenwalt, Dale E (2015). "Fossil Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation" (PDF). Sociobiology. 62 (2). doi: 10.13102/sociobiology.v62i2.163-174 (inactive 12 July 2025).