Malanthrope
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A Malanthrope is an odd creature created by the hive mind to collect specific DNA strands and is found lurking around war torn battlefields.
On the tabletop:
It is an venomthrope raised to the power of zoanthrope or vice versa also it can be taken in broods of up to 3 as a HQ choice for 110 pts each. They're pretty good is what I'm saying.
Their rules were updated in The Anphelion Project, 2nd Ed. They're now 25 pts cheaper and Elites, so they don't compete with Flyrants. I think of them more as having the same relationship to Venomthropes as Warriors have to Termagants: +1S/T, +2W, Save is two better, and add Synapse. They also grant Preferred Enemy to everything in their Synapse range if they're involved in a Combat where you destroy a Unit, and have a bunch of other fluffy rules that will never actually matter. They're now better than "pretty good", and well into the realm of "awesome", sitting just below the Flyrant on many players' lists of good Tyranid Units.