Two hypotheses of relationships of Chilean Mydidae as proposed by Artigas & Palma 1979 based on morphological characters (Figs 2–3).

A parsimony analysis of the original matrix that Artigas & Palma based their hypotheses on (presented in Fig. 1 in Artigas & Palma 1979) results in a single most parsimonious tree of length 12 and is identical to the tree depicted in Fig. 2 above.

Hypothesis of relationships among Apioceridae, Asilidae, and Mydidae from the morphological phylogeny of Asilidae by Dikow 2009a.

Hypothesis of relationships of Mydidae by Artigas & Papavero 1990. The authors postulate that the Diochlistinae are the sister group to the remaining Mydidae (note that the Megascelinae and Rhaphiomidinae have not been studied).

Hypothesis of relationships within Mydidae by Wilcox & Papavero 1974 based on morphology. Note: Megascelinae and Rhaphiomidinae not examined.

Hypothesis of relationships between Apioceridae and Mydidae with placement of Megascelinae and Rhaphiomidinae within Mydidae by Yeates & Irwin 1996.

Hypothesis of relationships among Apioceridae, Asilidae, and Mydidae presented at 6th International Congress of Dipterology, Fukuoka, Japan, Sep. 2006 based on 18S + 28S rDNA, CAD + EF-1alpha protein-encoding DNA. Dikow (unpublished)