| Overbeckia | |
|---|---|
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| Overbeckia subclavata worker | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Overbeckia Viehmeyer, 1916 |
| Diversity [1] | |
| 3 species | |
Overbeckia is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae originally containing only the single species Overbeckia subclavata. [2] Although the genus has been known over 100 years only from Singapore, where its nests were found in hollow branches of bamboo and other plants, [3] a revision study by Klimes and coll. in 2022 [4] showed that these ants occur across tropical SA Asia to Australasia and re-described the genus, Overbeckia subclavata. [2] and described two new species, Overbeckia jambiensis, and Overbeckia papuana. [4] The study also showed that more recent findings of Overbeckia in Australia [5] are likely O. papuana, based on morphology.
