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Photo#172403
unknown - Amblypsilopus - female

unknown - Amblypsilopus - Female
st. pete, pinellas County, Florida, USA
February 25, 2008
Size: TINY

Moved
Moved from Sciapodinae.

Not sure about this one
The long, pale legs with few bristles suggest Amblypsilopus. Apparently female, and so lacking the characters which make some males easily identifiable. It might also be Condylostylus, of which there are many species in Florida. Can you tell whether the bases of the antennae (thick segments) are all black, or have some yellow?

 
Current theory
This may be the female to your male:

I say that without being able to see diagnostic features here, because they look very similar and you saw them in the same place not too far apart in time. Wing distortion is only present in males of this genus, and the few leg bristles of this fly are only present in females of Amblypsilopus.

 
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I replaced the original picture with the cropped version.
Thanks.

Moved
Moved from Longlegged Flies.

Moved
Moved from Flies.

Cropping
Please see info here on cropping images
http://bugguide.net/node/view/170176

 
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That was my bad. I uploaded the wrong file. I re-sized an image for this site but must have clicked on the wrong one.
Sorry.
Thank you for the ID!

 
Not too late
You can just click edit, browse to the other file, and submit. Remember cropping is just as important as resizing, because only you and editors can see your full size images. You get a better chance at an ID if everyone can see all of the detail. Plus the image will be more useful to others in making their IDs. More bug, less plant. I may not be as artistic, but it is BugGuide. :-)

Looks like
one of the Longlegged Flies (Dolichopodidae). Maybe something like this one

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