“…A review of dipteran phylogenetics (Yeates & Wiegmann, 1999) emphasizes the need for superfamily-level relationships within Schizophora and Acalyptratae to be clarified through the use of new approaches. In both previous motecular phybgenetic studies including Conopidae specimens (Han & Ro, 2005;Han et al, 2002), the authors admit a lack of sufficient ingroup and outgroup sampling and conclude that the sequencing of further genes, including nudear protein-coding genes, is necessary for future dipteran molecular phybgenetic studies. Other researchers (Collins & Wiegmann, 2002a, 2002bKutty et aL, 2008;Moulton & Wiegmann, 2004Petersen et al, 2007;Wiegmann etal, 2000;Winterton et aL, 2007) have utilized DNA sequences as characters in phylogenetic analyses of Diptera at the family or superfamily level.…”