Classification: | Kingdom: Animalia | Phylum: Arthropoda | Class: Insecta | Order: Hymenoptera | Family: Formicidae | Genus: Technomymex |

This colony of ants was farming and protecting scale insects (Tribe: Cerataphidini), presented as small white spots with a brown centre region, on the leaf of the Nipah Palm (Nypa fruticans).