Table 4.

Results of Four-cluster Likelihood Mapping with original and permuted datasets testing the placement of Sphaeroceroidea

2—Sphaeroceroidea	Original	Permut. 1	Permut. 2	Permut. 3
A—Mod. Ovi. + Cleft Ped.	52.1	33.2	31.6	30.4
B—Sphaeroceroidea + Cleft Ped.	15.4	25.1	24.7	25.6
C—Sphaeroceroidea + Mod. Ovi.	32	26.4	26.4	29.2
Equivocal A or B	0.2	4.5	4.7	3.9
Equivocal B or C	0.1	4.3	5.3	4.8
Equivocal A or C	0.3	5.3	6	5.2
Equivocal all three quartets	0	1.2	1.3	0.9

Sphaeroceroidea stat. rev. placement was tested with respect to the Modified Oviscapt Clade including Tephritoidea and Nerioidea, and to the ‘Cleft Pedicel Clade’ including Ephydroidea and Calyptratae, with Sciomyzoidea stat. rev. as an unequivocal outgroup. Numbers are proportions of quartets supporting the respective quartet topology in percentages. For group definitions, see Additional file 9, Table S7