Formica ulkei
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| Formica ulkei | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
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]