tlilazcatl.

Headword: 
tlilazcatl.
Principal English Translation: 

the escamolera ant (the DFC includes two paintings that show these ants favor the maguey plant, and the source states that another name for them is azcamolli; this ant is similar to the tzicatl)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 95v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/95v/images/0 Accessed 4 November 2025.

IPAspelling: 
tɬiːlɑːskɑtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlilazcatl. hormiga negra y ponzoñosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 147v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Molina states that this ant is black and poisonous (see below).

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora
See also: 
azcatl.
molli.
tzicatl.