1928 Proshumardites Rauzer-Chernousova (Rauser-Tchernoussova): 165.
1934 Proshumardites.- Schindewolf: 184,
---- Pericleites.- Schindewolf: 184 (both genera closely related).
1936 Proshumardites.- Ruzhencev: 1083.
1937 Proshumardites.- Plummer & Scott: 115.
1939 Proshumardites.- Schindewolf: 423.
1939 Pericleites.- Schindewolf: 423.
1941 Proshumardites.- Delepine: 82.
1941 Proshumardites.- Librovitch: 152.
1957 Proshumardites.- Treatise: L51.
1960 Proshumardites.- Ruzhencev: 216.
1962 Proshumardites.- Kullmann: 68,
----- Proshumardites (Proshumardites).- Kullmann: 69,
----- Proshumardites (Trigonoshumardites) Kullmann: 74.
1962 Proshumardites.- Kullmann: 94,
----- Proshumardites (Proshumardites).- Kullmann: 95,
----- Proshumardites (Trigonoshumardites) Kullmann: 95.
1962 Proshumardites.- Osnovy: 380.
1965 Proshumardites.- Gordon: 276.
1968 Proshumardites.- McCaleb: 31.
1971 Pericleites.- Ruzhencev & Bogoslovskaya: 236,
----- Proshumardites.- Ruzhencev & Bogoslovskaya: 240.
1975 Proshumardites.- Nassichuk: 77.
1982 Proshumardites.- Nishida & Kyuma: 16.

Type species: Proshumardites karpinskii Rauzer-Chernousova, 1928, p.165 [OD].

A: Conch form thick-discoidal, umbilicus very narrow. Early whorls regularly coiled.
B,F: Ornamentation consisting of fine growth lines and usually of prominent closely spaced lirae; spiral ornamentation lacking in some species.
G: Ventral lobe relatively wide; median saddle higher than half the height of entire ventral lobe. Ventrolateral saddle rather broad, subacute or narrowly rounded. Adventitious lobe wide and tridentate.

[Nassichuk, 1975, p.77: Proshumardites is characterized by an extremly involute, subglobose to globose conch; the ratio of umbilical diameter to conch diameter is less than 10 per cent. Longitudinal lirae are coarse and widely spaced: Prongs of the broad ventral lobe are separate by a high, narrow saddle. Saddles L2/L1 are considerable lower than the first lateral saddle. Lateral lobe L1 is invariably larger than L2.

Sutural formula (Germ.): (E1EmE1) (AvAmAd) L U I, (Russ.): (V1V1)(L2L1L2)U:ID.