Southern Hemisphere Area Cladogram Examples

Siliphid Beetles
Metallicine Beetles

Diamesine Midges
Southern Beeches and Northern Beeches
AF - Africa, AUS - Australia, NC - New Caledonia, NG - New Guinea, NA - North America, NSA - northern South America, SSA - southern South America, TAS - Tasmania.

Note that the multiple taxonomic groups do not show the same phylogenetic record even though there is only one history of the breakup of Gondwanaland. Note that the Siliphid beetles and the beeches have no African representatives, and the Diamesine midges and Metallicine beetles have different affinities for their African representatives.
Crisci, J.V., Cigliano, M.M., Morrone, J.J., and Roigjunent, S. 1991. Historical biogeography of southwestern South America. Systematic Zoology 40: 152-171.