Overbeckia

{{short description|Species of ants}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Overbeckia subclavata casent0101191 profile 1.jpg |image_caption = ''Overbeckia subclavata'' worker |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Overbeckia |authority = Viehmeyer, 1916 |type_species = |type_species_authority = |diversity_link = #Species |diversity = 3 species |diversity_ref = <ref name="AntCat">{{AntCat|429309|''Overbeckia''|2025|accessdate=14 November 2025}}</ref> |synonyms = }}

'''''Overbeckia''''' is a genus of ants in the subfamily Formicinae originally containing only the single species ''Overbeckia subclavata''.<ref name="AWOverbeckia"/> 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,<ref name="Emery_1925"/> a revision study by Klimes and coll. in 2022<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Klimeš |first1=Petr |last2=Drescher |first2=Jochen |last3=Buchori |first3=Damayanti |author-link3=Damayanti Buchori |last4=Hidayat |first4=Purnama |last5=Nazarreta |first5=Rizky |last6=Potocký |first6=Pavel |last7=Rimandai |first7=Maling |last8=Scheu |first8=Stefan |last9=Matos-Maraví |first9=Pável |date=2022-07-25 |title=Uncovering cryptic diversity in the enigmatic ant genus Overbeckia and insights into the phylogeny of Camponotini (Hymenoptera : Formicidae : Formicinae) |url=https://www.publish.csiro.au/is/IS21067 |journal=Invertebrate Systematics |language=en |volume=36 |issue=6 |pages=557–579 |doi=10.1071/IS21067 |issn=1447-2600 |s2cid=251077487|url-access=subscription }}</ref> showed that these ants occur across tropical SA Asia to Australasia and re-described the genus, ''Overbeckia subclavata''.<ref name="AWOverbeckia"/> and described two new species, ''Overbeckia jambiensis'', and ''Overbeckia papuana''.<ref name=":0" /> The study also showed that more recent findings of ''Overbeckia'' in Australia <ref>{{Cite journal |last=B.E. |first=Heterick |date=2019 |title=First record of the formicine genus Overbeckia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Australia |url=https://myrmecologicalnews.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=1554&Itemid=437 |journal=Myrmecological News |language=en-gb |volume=29 |issn=1997-3500}}</ref> are likely ''O. papuana,'' based on morphology.

==Species== *''Overbeckia subclavata'' *''Overbeckia jambiensis'' *''Overbeckia papuana''

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="AWOverbeckia">{{cite web |url=http://www.antweb.org/description.do?name=Overbeckia&rank=genus&project=allantwebants |title= Genus: ''Overbeckia'' |date= |website=antweb.org |publisher=AntWeb |accessdate=23 September 2013}}</ref>

<ref name="Emery_1925">{{cite journal |last=Emery |first=C. |author-link1=Carlo Emery|date=1925 |title=Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae |journal=Genera Insectorum |volume=183 |pages=1–302 }}</ref> }}

==External links== *{{commons category-inline|Overbeckia subclavata|''Overbeckia subclavata''}}

Category:Formicinae Category:Ant genera Category:Hymenoptera of Asia