Harpegnathos venator

Appearance

The followings is a taxonomic description of the ant based on C. T. Bingham's ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma'' :
⤷  worker: Black ; mandibles, clypeus, antennal carinae and legs brownish yellow, antennae chestnut, apex of the abdomen rusty; head and thorax closely coarsely cribrate punctate ; abdomen finely densely reticulate punctate, opaque, with some large shallow punctures. Head, thorax and abdomen covered with rather sparse, short, erect pale hairs ; pubescence minute but fairly plentiful, to be seen only in certain lights. For the rest the characters of the genus.
⤷  queen: Similar to the worker, but the abdomen with long oblong punctures, the ocelli in the middle of the front. Thorax and abdomen more massive and as in ''Harpegnathos saltator''.
⤷  male: Mandibles broad at the base, attenuate, narrow and slender towards the apex, which is directed forwards. Head rectangular, somewhat rounded, broader than long. Eyes rather smaller than in the queen. A short depression between the mesonotum and scutellum, bordered by carinae and strongly striate inside. Smooth and shining, except for the thorax, which is coarsely rugose, punctate or striate . Covered by a fine yellowish pilosity, dense on the legs, less abundant elsewhere. Pubescence very sparse. The 1st abdominal segment is pyriform and has the appearance of forming a 2nd node to the pedicel, a slight constriction between the 2nd and 3rd segments. Thorax and pedicel of a brownish black, head and basal segment of the abdomen reddish yellow. Best of the abdomen yellow with a tinge of red. Legs and antenna) very pale testaceous.

Naming

*''Harpegnathos venator chapmani'' Donisthorpe, 1937
⤷ ''Harpegnathos venator rugosus''