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Proiridomyrmex
| †Proiridomyrmex Temporal range: 48–40 Ma Lutetian, Middle Eocene | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae (incertae sedis) |
| Genus: | †Proiridomyrmex Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002 |
| Type species | |
| Proiridomyrmex vetulus | |
| Diversity | |
| 2 fossil species (Species Checklist) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon is known from Green River Formation, Colorado, United States (Lutetian, Middle Eocene) and Kishenehn Formation shale, Montana, United States (Lutetian, Middle Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †PROIRIDOMYRMEX [incertae sedis in Dolichoderinae]
- †Proiridomyrmex Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2002: 416. Type-species: †Proiridomyrmex vetulus, by original designation.
References
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- 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, Proiridomyrmex as genus)