[Taxacom] loooongest species description?

[Andy Deans]

Hi all,

What are your candidates for the longest species description? I'm especially interested in descriptions that have the highest number of *anatomical attributes* described, as opposed to behavioral, ecological, or other characters. Any thoughts? 

My quick and dirty examination of recent Hymenoptera descriptions yields an average of 42 or so morphological characters per description. For the purposes of this exercise I am lumping the diagnosis and description together. Anyone know of a description that is hundreds of characters long and takes up dozens of pages?

It'd would be fun to see it!
Just curious,
Andy

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