Biology:Bountya

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Short description: Genus of beetles

Bountya
Bountya insularis AMNZ21822.jpg
Male holotype specimen held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Subfamily: Broscinae
Tribe: Broscini
Subtribe: Creobiina
Genus: Bountya
Townsend, 1971
Species:
B. insularis
Binomial name
Bountya insularis
Townsend, 1971

Bountya insularis is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae, the only species in the genus Bountya.[1] Both the genus and species was first described by J. I. Townsend in 1971 from specimens collected by E. G. Turbott on Bounty Island on 11 November 1950.[2] The holotype specimen is in the entomology collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.[2][3]

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