Please help me identify this insect

Portland, OR

Found this guy in my apartment in Portland, OR. It is about 8mm long and looks like a very young praying mantis. It has 4 legs, 2 arms (which it hold in the praying position most of the time though it will climb with them) and 2 segmented antenna. It flies fairly well, but prefers to walk. It has a thick curved proboscis instead of mandibles, which is a bit longer than its head. Its coloration is striped brown and tan, covering its whole body except for its back, which is more bark like.
I have my suspicions, but I'm not even a novice entomologist.

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Minot, ND

This is an assassin bug in the subfamily Emesinae, known as thread-legged bugs - see http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/image/137197463 and http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/image/70187358 for examples.

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