Harpegnathos venator

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Harpegnathos venator
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
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 in northern India and parts of Burma. Like other ants in the genus Harpegnathos , it jumps to capture prey and lives in relatively small nesting colonies. [2]

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Description

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Queen
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Male and queen

The following 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): [4]

They build their nests with the entrance hole on sloped earth under forest shade. The nests have about 8 to 70 individuals in multiple chambers. Workers and queens mostly stayed in the upper chamber while nest chambers are below them and these disc-shaped chambers are connected by a single thin column or funnel with a hole just enough for one ant to pass through. [8] Workers are known to lay infertile trophic eggs which are laid for feeding the reproductives. [9]

References

  1. Cat. vi (1858):82
  2. General, David Emmanuel M. (2016). "A review of the ant genus Harpegnathos Jerdon, 1851 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Philippines, with the description of two new species". Halteres. 7: 99–105.
  3. 1 2 Bolton, B. (2015). "Harpegnathos". AntCat. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  4. Bingham, C.T. 1903. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma . Hymenoptera. Ants and cuckoo-wasps. Vol. 2 London : Taylor & Francis.
  5. Wei, Zhang (2020). "Multifunctional mandibles of ants: Variation in gripping behavior facilitated by specific microstructures and kinematics" . Journal of Insect Physiology. 120: 103993. Bibcode:2020JInsP.12003993Z. doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2019.103993. PMID   31836493. S2CID   209358666.
  6. Wei, Zhang; et, al. (2020). "A mathematical modeling method elucidating the integrated gripping performance of ant mandibles and bio-inspired grippers" . Journal of Bionic Engineering. 17 (4): 732–746. doi:10.1007/s42235-020-0065-9. S2CID   220503041. Archived from the original on 2022-10-17. Retrieved 2022-07-31.
  7. Wei, Zhang; et, al. (2021). "Double-rowed teeth: design specialization of the H. venator ants for enhanced tribological stability" . Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 16 (5): 055003. doi:10.1088/1748-3190/ac124a. PMID   34233306. S2CID   235768522. Archived from the original on 2021-07-15. Retrieved 2022-07-31.
  8. Crosland, Michael W. J. (1995). "Nest and colony structure in the primitive ant, Harpegnathos venator (Smith) (hymenoptera: formicidae)". Pan-Pacific Entomologist. 71: 18–23.
  9. Sunittra Aupanun; Obika, Mitsuhiro; Riou Mizuno; Weeyawat Jaitrong; Piyawan Suttiprapan; Rosli Hashim; Fuminori Ito (2022). "Trophic eggs in three ponerine ant species: Harpegnathos venator, Odontomachus simillimus and Odontoponera denticulata". Asian Myrmecology. 15: 1–10. doi:10.20362/AM.015001. Archived from the original on 2024-04-15. Retrieved 2024-08-20.