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"Puli urumbu" (പുലി ഉറുമ്പ്) means tiger ant in Malayalam.
It usually refers to a large type of red ant (weaver ant / ഒണത്തുരുമ്പ് / Oecophylla smaragdina), known for its painful sting.
Locally, people call it puli urumbu because its bite is fiery and strong like a tiger’s attack.
These ants are reddish-orange in color, live in groups, and build nests by weaving leaves together using silk produced by their larvae.
They are very aggressive in defending their colonies.
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The Puli Urumbu (Weaver Ant / Oecophylla smaragdina) belongs to this scientific classification:
Kingdom: Animalia :
Phylum Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae (Ant family)
Genus: Oecophylla
Species: Oecophylla smaragdina
🟢 Family = Formicidae