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What kind of catfish/crayfish looking bug is this?!

Long story short, an intruder came into my room and took over my room for 2 hrs lol. I got it bagged [literally] as it hung out in my bluelight fixture. I have 4 pics, none perfect because this is the first time a bug freaked me out so bad, but it's still something. Just to describe it..
*It looked like a mix of a flea/catfish/crayfish from the side.
*The body alone was 1.5 inches long, the wing added another 3/4th of an inch I believe.
*When it's wings are in use [whether flying or just enjoying the fact that it had a bright blue light to play with] it sounded like paper tearing and was VERY VERY loud.
*It was um...a tanish colour. It walks very very slow.

Hopefully this helps, I sent it in to What's That Bug a good half hour ago. Oh yeah, I live in New York City, I'm a block away from Central Park if that helps at all. I certainly see my share of odd looking bugs, even some mutated mixes but this one...takes the cake. I was hoping it was a bee/bumblebee/wasp/hornet because those things don't freak me out but this thing...*sigh* anyway, here are the 4 pics I got of it.

Here's a side pic...you need at least 4x zoom to see it well enough. My pillow in teh back is kind of giving it camo. If you look directly behind it, you see a blur [kind of like if the pillow is blurred there]. That's it's wing. In person, it's very clear and you can easily see the 'veins'.
http://img413.imageshack.us/i/p1010387r.jpg/

These three are just pics of it *shivers* walking. I think it's the back, I forgot where it was walking to.
http://img836.imageshack.us/i/snapshot002l.png/
http://img832.imageshack.us/i/snapshot003y.png/
http://img62.imageshack.us/i/snapshot001bq.png/

Odd Description...
Based on the body/wing length, did it look like this?

 
YES!!
OMG YES THAT WAS IT!!! Yeah, sorry for the odd description, I just did the best I could there lol. But wow, that was on point, thanks so much! It was such a shock to see/hear this thing in my room [small room, so you know...resonation too] because it was so huge and had wings...but again thanks a bunch! I removed it from my room, but I didn't kill it. I don't kill insects that make their way in here, I lead them out or trap them and relocate them out of my apartment.

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