Formica montana

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Formica montana is an ant in the genus Formica (wood ants, mound ants, and field ants) in the family Formicidae.{{cite web|url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/292746|title=Formica montana species information.|website=bugguide.net|accessdate=2018-01-15}}{{cite web|url=https://www.itis.gov/|title=Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)|website=itis.gov|accessdate=2018-01-15}} A common name for F. montana is "prairie mound ant".{{cite web|url=http://eol.org/pages/475158/overview|title=Encyclopedia of Life Formica montana species overview.|website=eol.org|accessdate=2018-01-15}}

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, a single colony can have as many as 20 queens present.{{Cite journal |last1=Henderson |first1=Gregg |last2=Jeanne |first2=Robert L. |date=1992 |title=Population Biology and Foraging Ecology of Prairie Ants in Southern Wisconsin (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25085323 |journal=Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society |volume=65 |issue=1 |pages=16–29 |jstor=25085323 |issn=0022-8567}}