Vollenhovia 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 : 114

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.20362/am.015006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15474504
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scientific name	Vollenhovia overbecki Viehmeyer, 1916
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Vollenhovia overbecki Viehmeyer, 1916 View in CoL

Material examined. Queens, Bukit Timah forest, A124-11, 17 Dec 1972, D.H. Murphy leg.

Material not physically examined. Types – CASENT0908662, ANTC031013 ( MHNG) ; male and worker, FOCOL0313-314 ( DEIC); 2 males and 3 workers, FOCOL1664-1668 ( ZMHB) .

Literature. Type – Viehmeyer (1916); Overbeck (1924).

Localities. Bukit Timah forest; Bukit Timah Road; Jurong Road.

Habitat/Ecology. The type colony was found in a rotten trunk of a tree, macrohabitat unspecified. Individuals were also found in a garden, and in either primary or old/mature secondary forest.

Remarks. Type locality/localities in Singapore. Species identity of material examined was largely deduced based on original descriptions of the worker, since no images or descriptions of the queen were available for reference at the time of writing.