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What's this bug on my kitchen carpet? - Arhopalus rusticus

What's this bug on my kitchen carpet? - Arhopalus rusticus
Santa Fe County, New Mexico, USA
June 20, 2009
Size: approx. 2cm

Moved tentatively -- the only one in NM + not inconsistent
...morphologically

Moved from Arhopalus.

something in Aseminae [?Arhopalus]
please post a plain dorsal view

 
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Dr. Thomas did'n leave a comment but wrote privately that he agrees ("identified as well as I could")

Beetle
That looks like a "longhorned" beetle(1). Somebody should be able to make a better (more precise) ID. A view from above is often helpful. Some species, for example, are identified by the shape of the wingtips as seen from above.

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