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PitterCol Yumbo, Colombia Aug 07, 2022

What might this be?

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Aug 07, 2022

It's in the family Tabanidae (horse flies/deer flies). Patterned wings like this specimen are more typical of deer flies, but its overall appearance looks more like that of a horse fly to me. Deer flies typically are smaller (body length ~10mm or less), but there are some small horse flies as well. Unfortunately, I cannot see all the characters necessary to key it out to genus. You might have a look at the following references:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259184664_Estudios_sobre_tabanos_Diptera_Tabanidae_de_Colombia
https://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/psyche/1946/040437.pdf
http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0366-52322008000100010

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PitterCol Yumbo, Colombia Aug 07, 2022

Thank you very much.

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