''Formica montana'' is an ant in the genus'' Formica'' (wood ants, mound ants, and field ants) in the family Formicidae.
A common name for ''F. montana'' is "prairie mound ant".
[Phylogeny and classification of Hymenoptera, Sharkey M.J. 2007.]
[Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera, Sharkey M.J., Carpenter J.M., Vilhelmsen L., et al. 2012. Cladistics 28(1): 80-112.]
F. montana are often
polygynous
Polygyny () is a form of polygamy entailing the marriage of a man to several women. The term polygyny is from Neoclassical Greek πολυγυνία (); .
Incidence
Polygyny is more widespread in Africa than in any other continent. Some scholar ...
, a single colony can have as many as 20 queens present.
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montana
Montana ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota to the east, South Dakota to the southeast, Wyoming to the south, an ...
Insects described in 1910
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