Humants

Humants are a human subspecies, combining the appearance and genetic build of a human with some select traits of an ant. A notable member of this subspecies is Ziia.

Appearance
The most basic difference separating humants from "pure" humans is the fact this subspecies posesses stingers, long antennaes, insect wings and dark red skin color (though only humants that didn't have a human parent posess that trait). Male humants tend to have bigger stingers, while females posess longer antennaes.

Origin
It isn't scientifically known how and when humants came to be, though some medieval manuscripts mention "the vile spawns of devil, cloaking themselves as terrifying fusions of an ant and a human" , leading to believe humants were already present during the Nocandian Middle Ages. An old legend also details how the creation of the subspecies - supposedly, an unknown evil demigod promised immortality to one of the earliest tribes on Nocandia, provided they'll murder the entire population of Thiren (then only as a town). The god highest in hierarchy (presumably Adinn) intervened too late and as a punishment, turned every single member of that tribe into red ants, forcing them to scatter across the land and live in that form until the curse is lifted. The demigod who caused the entire situation went into hiding and his current fate is unknown.

Government
Constitutional-elective monarchy is universally accepted as a only form of government in humant cities. Every city has a queen (sometimes king) ant, which doesn't serve the role as their natural ant counterparts do, instead being a traditional monarch. Directly under her is the council consisting of 30 (or 10 in smaller cities) members, serving as advisors, also often having a major role in deciding about important affairs of a city. The capital city of the entire subspecies, Thiren II, also has a parlament of 460 members, having roughly the same role as the council, only on a bigger scale.

Biology
Biology of a humant doesn't have any major differences from that of a normal human, aside from a few notable differences, such as having a stinger, producing poison and being protected by a thick and hard unknown material. It can be shrunk and enlarged to a certain degree.

The antennaes serve no major function other than being an indicator of emotions of a humant having them, for example shaking slightly is one is happy or becoming sharper if one is angry.

The wings in most cases cannot allow its user flight, thus they are mostly useless and are kept hidden under clothes.

A humant's skin color changes during the course of one's growing up, being light red right after birth, being darker red throughout the childhood well into teenage years, and finally turning an even darker shade of red when one becomes an adult.

Most common hair colors humants have range from black to gray. Having a different color (such as blonde) is rather rare and was considered a genetic defect in the past.