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Hello everybody. I'm new here. Would you please help me with this fly? Photos taken in the outskirts of David City, Chiriquí Province, West Panama; low lands, farm area, lots of vegetation and natural water around (August 23, 2012). It was on a window.

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second photo:

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Thank you Chris!:D I will email them to you. Please, tell me then what I have done wrong. There is no punctuation, no spaces, I reduced them, the extentions are fine, etc. But it's better that you check then out ;)

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You are correct that the names & sizes of most of the files were fine but they did not upload. This is a very rare problem and I think it is to do with an incompatibility with an unusual JPG image format. Which software do you use to create the images?

To upload them all I did was open them in PhotoShop and then Save-for-Web with 'High' JPG quality ... and they worked. :)

It's a very nice tabanid, by the way - I changed the title of the first post to attract the tabanid experts.

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Thank you very much for your help, Chris |t
I use PhotoShop for my images. From now on, I'll save them as you say. I've been uploading photos for about 6 years to another forum, and haven't encountered any problem like this. I'm glad you solved it!
Thank you also, for the family name and for editting the title.;)
Hadn't seen this Tabanidae member ever before.

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It's certainly a very beautiful tabanid ... if I have to be bitten by a fly then I would hope that it looks this good ;)

As to the photo-uploads, our forum software is very secure but it can reject perfectly valid photos by mistake (very rarely). But I have never had a problem after re-saving with Save-For-Web and choosing a Medium/High compression factor.

If you are pulling your hair out then you can always use [ IMG ] links to a third-party site but we prefer people to upload photos because then they remain with the thread. If they are on another site they always get moved or deleted and then the links and the subject of the thread here is meaningless :)

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You've made me laugh! :D
For your same reasons, I don't like uploading through third-party sites.
Thanks again ;)
Hope someone comes by and tell us the name of this Panamanian Tabanid, so I may also submit it for your gallery.

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Wow, what a beauty. Must be something near Catachlorops fulmineus. Theo Zeegers will probably be able to tell you more.

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Thank you Jan. ;) I'm no expert, but searched with the Id you said and found this:
http://darnis.inbio.ac.cr/ubis/FMPro?-DB=UBIPUB.fp3&-lay=WebAll&-error=norec.html&-Format=detail.html&-Op=eq&id=4537&-Find

Also, I looked at Catachlorops fortunensis, but it has black legs.

I'm uploading (hope I can) more photos, just in case.

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another photo

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closer..

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closer

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Well, I certainly am no expert on Tabanidae myself and my suggestion can hardly be called an identification, more something like a guesstimate ;). So let's hope Theo will have a look and give his opinion.

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First of all: excellent pictures ! Well documented !

Secondly, I have some experience in Neotropical Tabanidae, but I am not the expert.

Third, the pic shows a male and the keys are female oriented.

Catachlorops seems OK. The wing venation reminds of subgenus Psalidia, but wing venation is different. So it should be in subg. Psarochlorops.
But it is neither a species mentioned in the works on Panama (Fairchild) or on Colombia (Wilkerson).

To quote J.J. Cale.... we have come to the end of the line. At least, for now.

Theo

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Thank you very much Theo :D I had not visited this site for a long time 'cause I had lost my information :(
I'm glad you liked the photos and the specimen. It was the first time I saw that fly.
Saludos,
Candle