In the end, when Pheidole in the New World: A Dominant, Hyperdiverse Ant Genus was published in 2003, the book comprised 798 pages in which 624 species were diagnosed, 334 of them new to science, with everything known of the biology of every species cited, and all of the species illustrated, with a total of over 5,000 drawings I had made myself. Even as copies of Pheidole in the New World were being printed, new species continued to pour into the museum from collaborators in the field.
