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] 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.

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.