| Bountya | |
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| Male holotype specimen held at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| 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]
