Prodimorphomyrmex

†Prodimorphomyrmex Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region
Prodimorphomyrmex primigenius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Gesomyrmecini
Genus:	†Prodimorphomyrmex Wheeler, W.M., 1915
Type species
Prodimorphomyrmex primigenius
Diversity
1 fossil species (Species Checklist)

Distribution

This taxon is known from Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene).

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• †PRODIMORPHOMYRMEX [incertae sedis in Formicinae: Gesomyrmecini]
  • †Prodimorphomyrmex Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 111. Type-species: †Prodimorphomyrmex primigenius, by monotypy.

References

• Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
• Blaimer, B.B., Brady, S.G., Schultz, T.R., Lloyd, M.W., Fisher, B.L., & Ward, P.S. 2015. Phylogenomic methods outperform traditional multi-locus approaches in resolving deep evolutionary history: a case study of formicine ants. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15:271 (DOI 10.1186/s12862-015-0552-5).
• Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 50, Prodimorphomyrmex in Formicinae, Gesomyrmecini)
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 368, Prodimorphomyrmex in Formicinae, Gesomyrmecini)
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 109, Prodimorphomyrmex in Formicinae, Gesomyrmecini; incertae sedis in Gesomyrmecini)
• Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. (page 77, Prodimorphomyrmex in Formicinae, Gesomyrmecini [Gesomyrmini])
• Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 617-688 (page 687, Prodimorphomyrmex in Formicinae, Gesomyrmecini)
• Ward, P.S., Blaimer, B.B., Fisher, B.L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072 (3): 343–357 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.4).
• Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 111, Prodimorphomyrmex as genus; Prodimorphomyrmex in Camponotinae, Gesomyrmecini)
• Wheeler, W. M. 1929a. The identity of the ant genera Gesomyrmex Mayr and Dimorphomyrmex Ernest André. Psyche (Camb.) 36: 1-12 (page 12, Prodimorphomyrmex in Formicinae, Brachymyrmecini)