@article {1065,
	title = {Phylogenetic relationships of the lower Cyclorrhapha (Diptera: Brachycera) based on 28S rDNA sequences},
	journal = {Insect Systematics and Evolution},
	volume = {33},
	number = {4},
	year = {2002},
	pages = {445-456},
	abstract = {Cyclorrhaphan Diptera are an extremely successful clade of ecologically and phylogenenetically important flies. Despite their significance the relationships among lower cyclorrhaphans ({\textquoteright}Aschiza{\textquoteright}) remain controversial in spite of several morphologically based phylogenetic analyses. We sequenced a 2.7-kb fragment of 28S rDNA for taxa representing all lower cyclorrhaphan families (except Ironomyiidae), four schizophoran families, and seven empidoid outgroup taxa. Phylogenetic analysis of these data strongly supports a monophyletic Cyclorrhapha (including the enigmatic taxon Opetia nigra) that is divided into two clades - a well-supported Eumuscomorpha (Syrphidae + Pipunculidae + Schizophora), and a weakly-supported Platypezoidea (all non-Eumuscomorpha). Consequently, the former grouping known as Aschiza, which included syrphids and pipunculids, is not a valid monophyletic clade. Within Platypezoidea, most of our analyses place Lonchopteridae as sister group to Opetiidae, and strongly support the monophyly of Sciadoceridae + Phoridae. Among the Eumuscomorpha we do not recover the monophyly of Syrphoidea (Syrphidae + Pipunculidae). Instead, all analyses place Pipunculidae as the sister group to Schizophora. This novel finding has never been proposed based on morphological data and will require more data (both molecular and morphological) and taxa to confirm.},
	keywords = {Dolichopodidae, Empididae, Empidoidea, Eremoneura, molecular systematics, Pipunculidae, Platypezoidea, Syrphidae, Syrphoidea},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://ZOOR13900025261},
	author = {Collins, Kenneth P. and Wiegmann, Brian M.}
}
@conference {1630,
	title = {Relationships of the Syrphoidea (Diptera) and a preliminary look at the systematics of the Australian Neodorylini (Diptera, Pipunculidae)},
	booktitle = {Australian Systematic Botany Society and Society of Australian Systematic Biologists Joint National Conferences},
	year = {1997},
	pages = {57},
	publisher = {Joint National Conferences Organising Committee for Australian Systematic Botany Society, Society of Australian Biologists and Australasian Mycological Society},
	organization = {Joint National Conferences Organising Committee for Australian Systematic Botany Society, Society of Australian Biologists and Australasian Mycological Society},
	address = {Adelaide, South Australia},
	keywords = {molecular systematics, Pipunculidae, Syrphidae, Syrphoidea},
	author = {Skevington, J.},
	editor = {Barker, Robyn M. and Barker, William R.}
}
@mastersthesis {1636,
	title = {Pipunculidae (Diptera) systematics: Spotlight on the diverse tribe Eudorylini in Australia},
	year = {2000},
	note = {446 pp},
	school = {University of Queensland, Brisbane},
	type = {Ph.D.},
	keywords = {Australia, Eudorylini, molecular systematics, morphology, phylogeny, Pipunculidae, revision},
	author = {Skevington, J. H.}
}
@conference {1652,
	title = {Relationships within the Syrphoidea},
	booktitle = {Fourth International Congress of Dipterology},
	year = {1998},
	pages = {210-211},
	address = {Oxford, United Kingdom},
	keywords = {molecular systematics, Pipunculidae, Syrphoidea},
	author = {Skevington, J. H. and Yeates, D. K.},
	editor = {Ismay, J. W.}
}
@article {1653,
	title = {Phylogeny of the Syrphoidea (Diptera) inferred from mtDNA sequences and morphology with particular reference to classification of the Pipunculidae (Diptera)},
	journal = {Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution},
	volume = {16},
	number = {2},
	year = {2000},
	pages = {212-224},
	keywords = {molecular systematics, phylogeny, Pipunculidae, Syrphidae, Syrphoidea, total evidence},
	author = {Skevington, J. H. and Yeates, D. K.}
}
@article {1714,
	title = {A 28s ribosomal RNA phylogeny of certain cyclorrhaphous Diptera based upon  a hypervariable region},
	journal = {Systematic Entomology},
	volume = {14},
	number = {4},
	year = {1989},
	pages = {417-431},
	address = {Oxford},
	keywords = {Aschiza, cladistics, Cyclorrhapha, molecular systematics, Pipunculidae, Syrphoidea},
	author = {Vossbrinck, Charles  R. , and Friedman, S.}
}
