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Jrockca Vancouver, WA Apr 29, 2017

This was crawling on my carpet and I thought it was an earwig until I got a closer look. No idea what this is never seen anything like it before. Size of a pincher bug with an ant shaped head. Vancouver Washington

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Apr 30, 2017

This is a rove beetle (family Staphylinidae). This is a huge family comprising thousands of species, the vast majority of which are general predators on other small arthropods.

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Jrockca Vancouver, WA May 01, 2017

Is this also called a devils couch horse?

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND May 01, 2017

The devil's coach horse is a large species of rove beetle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_coach_horse_beetle

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