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Hybotidae => Platypalpus pallidiventris group
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Further images :
www.inaturalist.o...s/91511586
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Tried keying, but photo set lacks the necessary detail I think.
Perhaps optimistic to go anywhere on this one.
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Probably a female of the pallidiventris group and if so, likely to be pallidiventris itself
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Thanks Paul.

A follow-up comment from Zachary Dankowicz on iNaturalist -
"I think that this is P. longiseta. The flagellum looks lighter at the base and the terminal tarsal segment is distinctly darker than the prior ones."
 
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