利用中国研究材料上的优势，结合现代系统发育学理论，采用比较形态学和分子系统学分析相结合的研究方法，开展摇蚊亚科高级阶元的系统发育关系的研究。该研究的实施将规范摇蚊亚科族级、属群和属级鉴别特征；探求该亚科和该亚科内已知属群的单系性以及摇蚊亚科属群和属间的系统发育关系；构建摇蚊亚科高级阶元的系统发育框架；追溯该亚科的进化历史；评价不同分子标记在摇蚊科高级阶元系统发育研究中的有效性。预期研究结果的提出将解决长期悬而未决的摇蚊亚科高级阶元系统发育上的脉络不清的难题，为合理制定世界摇蚊科分类系统提供重要的依据。

In virtue of the material advantage in China, combined with modern cladistics principles, the project focus on phylogenetic study on the higher taxa of Chironominae using comparative morphological and molecular systematic methods. The aims of the project include: defining the diagnosis in the subfamily, tribe, generic complex and genus level. By the phylogenetic parsimony analysis to examine of the higher taxa are monophyletic and its phylogenetic relationship. Reconstruct the phylogenetic relationship and trace evolutionary history of the subfamily. Evaluate the validity of different molecular markers in the study of phylogenetic relationship between higher taxa of Chironomidae. Anticipated viewpoint will redound to solve the puzzle of unclear phylogenetic relationship between higher taxa of Chironominae and will provide important data constituting reasonable classification system of the family Chironomidae.