Аннотация:A new genus of ants from the Late
Eocene ambers of Europe is described. Yantaromyrmex
gen. n. includes five species, three of them have been
previously described in the genera Hypoclinea Mayr,
1855 (Y. constrictus (Mayr, 1868), comb. n., and Y. geinitzi
(Mayr, 1868), comb. n.) and Iridomyrmex Mayr, 1862
(Y. samlandicus (Wheeler, 1915), comb. n.), and were
transferred to the genus Anonychomyrma Donisthorpe, 1947
in the recent revision of the genus Iridomyrmex [Heterick,
Shattuck, 2011]. Two new species, Y. intermedius sp. n. and
Y.mayrianumsp.n., are described. Species of the new genus
combine plesiomorphic characters of both Iridomyrmex
and Anonychomyrma, but cannot be included to any of
these genera. Probably the genus Yantaromyrmex gen. n.
is ancestral to both of these genera and for the tribe
Iridomyrmecini sensu Dubovikoff [2005], as a whole. A key
to species of the genus Yantaromyrmex gen. n. based on
workers is given.