Formica montana | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Genus: | Formica |
Species: | F. montana
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Binomial name | |
Formica montana Wheeler, 1910
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Formica montana is an ant in the genus Formica (wood ants, mound ants, and field ants) in the family Formicidae.[1][2] A common name for F. montana is "prairie mound ant".[3] [4] [5]
F. montana are often polygynous, a single colony can have as many as 20 queens present.[6]