Proformica (Proformica) epinotalis Kusnetsov-Ugamsky

Proformica epinotalis Kusnetsov-Ugamsky, 1927 Material: 19?, Alborz Range forest steppe, Golestan National Park (37��20'54''N, 56��14'42''E), 1261 m asl, 29.V2007, leg. Omid Paknia; 11?, Alborz Range forest steppe, Khoshyelagh Wildlife Refuge (36��46'24''N, 55��22 '42''E), 1707 m asl, 6.VI.2007, leg. Omid Paknia. Remarks: This species is distributed from Romania in the west through southeast Europe, southwest Siberia and Kazakhstan to Tuva in Siberia (Dlussky 1969), the Central Asian Mountains (Dlussky et al. 1990). This genus is new to Iran.
Published as part of Paknia, O., Radchenko, A. & Pfeiffer, M., 2010, New records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Iran., pp. 29-38 in Asian Myrmecology 3 on page 34