tamɨ́ɨka ‘tangarana’ or ‘madre de tangarana’, a species of small biting [...]

Part of Speech	noun
Root	tamɨ́ɨka
Variant Form(s)	Free Variant: tamɨ́ɨna imɨ́ɨni

• • ‘tangarana’ or ‘madre de tangarana’, a species of small biting ant that lives inside the hollow trunks of <tamɨ́ɨna> (‘tangarana’) trees; they aggressively attack anything that touches the trunk of the tree, swarming the intruder and delivering very painful bites

  Scientific Name

  Pseudomyrmex sp

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