[Taxacom] highest number of new species described in one paper

[Neal Evenhuis]

At 7:10 PM -0700 5/29/08, Vazrick Nazari wrote:
>I am trying to find out the largest number of species (or taxa for 
>that matter) new to science, described in a single taxonomic paper 
>published post 1900.
>Anyone has a favorite example?

The late Elmo Hardy in 1965 described 341 drosophilids (all taxa 
including genus-group names and species-group names) in one work 
(Insects of Hawaii); this includes 195 new species (no subspecies) in 
just the genus Drosophila from just a tiny little island group way 
out here in the middle of the Pacific.

-Neal