Moved from Physoconops.

For a long time I'd been unclear on the confusing situation among the cluster of Florida Physoconops consisting of P. floridanus, P. weemsi, P. excisus, and what seemed to be possibly "disjunct" members of the supposedly southwest species P. townsendi (and apparently I'm not alone in the latter idea...see the last line of this University of Lund record). For instance, the post below exhibits abdominal color mostly red instead of black, and seems in that aspect a better candidate for P. townsendi that P. excisus:

 

...except the dark black pattern of the frons (and the East Coast location) are more in line with P. excisus.

But it's become clear to me that some of the posts I was hesitant about (like yours here) are indeed P. excisus. And at this point the "complete post-vertical pollinose stripe" and color pattern characters of the frons, face, thorax, and abdomen I can now confidently place this as P. excisus. (The ones that are still tricky for me are P. weemsi and P. floridanus...but I hope to sort them out too.)