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Overbeckia subclavata worker | |
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Genus: | Overbeckia Viehmeyer, 1916
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Species: | O. subclavata
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Overbeckia subclavata Viehmeyer, 1916
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Overbeckia is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae originally containing only the single species Overbeckia subclavata.[1] 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,[2] a revision study by Klimes and coll. in 2022[3] showed that these ants occur across tropical SA Asia to Australasia and re-described the genus, Overbeckia subclavata.[1] and described two new species, Overbeckia jambiensis, and Overbeckia papuana.[3] The study also showed that more recent findings of Overbeckia in Australia [4] are likely O. papuana, based on morphology.