Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Help ID please (suspected arhopalus rusticus), 1 by PaleBlueDot

PaleBlueDot wrote:
Hiya!

I've been grappling with these little guys for years now. Basically they are in my basement-floor music production studio in Milan, Italy, where the frames that hold the soundproofing together were built out of pine beams (we got the beams from a company that stored them outdoors) where I suspect their larvae live. They always show up around this time of the year (April - May). I've had to call pest control every year for 5 years, they just keep coming back. Finally last year the pest guy id'd them as a xylophagous species (the previous guys didn't), he did a treatment accordingly but they're back again a year later. I am slightly anxious because a lot of instruments and equipment racks in the studio are made of wood, though it is my understanding that they aren't liable to attack treated/finished woods.

Anyway, any help ID'ing this guy would be great. I did a little research on the internet and I am suspecting arhopalus rusticus?

Thanks

PBD