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Bountya

genus of insects

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ4950061 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bountya insularis is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae, the only species in the genus Bountya. 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. The holotype specimen is in the entomology collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Editorial summary

“Bountya” enters the record as genus of insects. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bountya, genus and insects can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1950—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bountya, genus and insects.
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Why this record matters

“Bountya” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bountya, genus and insects provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4950061. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1971 and 1950.

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Scientific names, classifications and consensus can change while older terminology persists in catalogues and historical literature. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Which observation, specimen, dataset or publication supports the account?
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This entry incorporates text from “Bountya” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.