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Communities consisting of triplets of blind diving beetle species found in different underground aquifers (numbers) that became isolated 5 million years ago when Australian climate became arid.
<p>Independently of the founder species, evolution led to a small a medium and a large species in each aquifer. H, B and C code the tribes Bidessini, Hydroporini and Copelatini; bars connect pairs of species that evolved from the same founder species (illustration courtesy of Chris Watts and Howard Hamond).</p