Dolopomyrmex is a genus of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae containing the single species Dolopomyrmex pilatus.

[1] The genus is known from the western and the southwestern United States, where the ants live in arid desert habitats, likely with an almost exclusively subterranean life style.

[2] The genus name is derived from ancient Greek dolops, dolopos ("lurker in ambush") + Greek myrmex, myrmekos ("ant"); the specific name of the type species (D. pilatus) is derived from the pilum (a javelin commonly used by the Roman army), making Dolopomyrmex pilatus the "spear-bearing ambush ant".

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