Formica ulkei is a species of ant in the family Formicidae.[1][2][3][4] Carlo Emery described the species in 1893,[5] and named it after Titus Ulke, a mineralogist who collected ants and beetles while employed by a mining company in South Dakota. Ulke sent specimens to his father, Henry Ulke, who passed the ant samples to Theodore Pergande, who in turn sent them to Emery.[6]

Formica ulkei
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Genus: Formica
Species:
F. ulkei
Binomial name
Formica ulkei
Emery, 1893

References

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  1. ^ "Formica ulkei Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  2. ^ "Formica ulkei". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  3. ^ "AntWeb". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  4. ^ Emery, Carlo (1893). "Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamerikanischen Ameisenfauna". Zoologische Jahrbücher Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere. 7: 633-682.
  5. ^ Smith, Marion R. (1952). "On the collection of ants made by Titus Ulke in the Black Hills of South Dakota in the early nineties". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 60 (1): 55–63. JSTOR 25005439.

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