Harpegnathos venator

Harpegnathos venator
View from above (specimen from Sabah, Malaysia)
Side view (specimen from Sabah, Malaysia)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Genus: Harpegnathos
Species: H. venator
Binomial name
Harpegnathos venator
(Smith, 1858)
Synonyms

Drepanognathus venator, Smith, 1858[1]

Harpegnathos venator is a species of ant found in South and Southeast Asia. It is found in northern India and parts of Burma.

Subspecies

Description

Head view of an Harpegnathos venator worker

The followings is a taxonomic description of the ant based on C. T. Bingham's The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma (Hymenoptera, Volume 2):[3]

References

  1. Cat. vi (1858):82
  2. 1 2 Bolton, B. (2015). "Harpegnathos". AntCat. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  3. Bingham, C.T. 1903.The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera. Ants and cuckoo-wasps. Vol. 2 London : Taylor & Francis.


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