• Overbeckia in Camponotinae, Camponotini: Forel, 1917: 251.
• Overbeckia in Formicinae, Camponotini: Wheeler, 1922: 700; Emery, 1925d: 59; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 19; Bolton, 1995b: 40; Bolton, 2003: 27, 122; Ward et al., 2016: 345.
• Overbeckia as genus: all authors.

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