Ectomomyrmex overbecki ( Viehmeyer, 1916 )

Hamer, Matthew T., Lee, Jonathan Hon Chung, Tse, Cheung Yau Leo, Silva, Thiago S. R. & Guénard, Benoit, 2022, Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy, Asian Myrmecology (e 015006) 15, pp. 1-152 : 120

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
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scientific name	Ectomomyrmex overbecki ( Viehmeyer, 1916 )
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Ectomomyrmex overbecki ( Viehmeyer, 1916) View in CoL

Material examined. Queen, locality unknown, 1994, collector unknown, NS 136A, ZRC _ ENT00000277 View Materials ; Pulau Ubin ( OBS area), 28 May 2019, W. Wang leg., ZRC _ ENT00007921 View Materials ; Mandai Road, 1.40869, 103.80138, 19-21 Dec 2016, G.W. Yong et al. leg., M1D3GPc20149, ZRC _ ENT00047847 View Materials GoogleMaps

Material not physically examined. Types – CASENT0915272, ANTC40433 ( NHMB); FOCOL0958-961 View Materials ( ZMHB). Non-type – FOCOL0364 ( DEIC) [as cotype of unpublished ‘ Bothroponera helleri ’] .

Literature. Type – Viehmeyer (1916); Overbeck (1924) [both as Pachycondyla (Ectomomyrmex) overbecki ].

Localities. Bukit Timah Road [type]; Mandai Road; Pulau Ubin.

Habitat/Ecology. The type series of this species was found nesting between the roots of a tree in loose earth in a garden. Individuals were also collected from disturbed native-dominated secondary forest, on one occasion in a rotting log on the ground.

Remarks. Type locality in Singapore.