Please ID this crustacean (I live near Atlanta, GA))

[Jahova]

Ok, my house had a small water flooding incident and 3 days later my GF took some clothes and towels to the laundromat. Since our washing machine overflooded, a lot of stuff got wet and dirty.

This specimen was found within our laundry at the laundromat:

Either it was living in my house and died when washing clothes, or idk where it came from. Is this even something that can live outside water?

 

[Jahova]

Sorry about the photo size. I didn't know the forum here couldn't resize IMG...

 

[Coral Dilema]

Looks more insectivore than crustacean, maybe some type of beatle.

 

[TruReef]

Looks more insectivore than crustacean, maybe some type of beatle.

I agree...

 

[LiquidCache]

Looks like it's somewhere in the family of a water beetle to me.

 

[Jahova]

Beetle makes sense.

Is it normal to find here in Georgia?

 

[LiquidCache]

We've got them here in Florida, so, I don't see why Georgia would be any different.

 

[aujosh84]

Not a water beetle. Looks like the thorax of a dung beetle:

 

[Calappidae]

Was your liverock ever outside? I'd like to note there are not, to my knowledge.. any saltwater aquatic insects.

 

[clay12340]

Was your liverock ever outside? I'd like to note there are not, to my knowledge.. any saltwater aquatic insects.

Doesn't look like this guy has anything to do with his tank. I'd look at a listing of native beetles and try to find a match. Looks like it is probably some sort of burrowing beetle based on those legs. Probably just roaming the newly opened flood plain in search of food, and ended up hanging out in your laundry.

 

[Jpugh73]

Maybe a frog of some sort just looking at the legs

 

[Calappidae]

Doesn't look like this guy has anything to do with his tank. I'd look at a listing of native beetles and try to find a match. Looks like it is probably some sort of burrowing beetle based on those legs. Probably just roaming the newly opened flood plain in search of food, and ended up hanging out in your laundry.

I'm saying I've had stingbugs and spiders floating in my tanks before after leaving liverock outside to dry a few times. Like you said it could have been in search for food as dead liverock is any outdoor scavenger's dream. Probably crawled in or found some other way into the tank.

 

[Betta132]

It's a large beetle, probably a burrower.
I will note that there are a couple species of water strider that run across the ocean, but those are the only known saltwater insect aside from your occasional water beetle that swims down from a river and stays for a bit.

 

[Calappidae]

It's a large beetle, probably a burrower.
I will note that there are a couple species of water strider that run across the ocean, but those are the only known saltwater insect aside from your occasional water beetle that swims down from a river and stays for a bit.

I don't really find water striders to be described as "Aquatic" mainly because they never lay their eggs or submerge under themselves. They only eat drowning flies and such at the surface. I think their hairs on their legs create little air pockets enabling the to float.. I forget exactly but it was something like that. Where as any other aquatic insect would be prone to hyposalinity being submerged.

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

He found this in his laundry. It's a carcass from a terrestrial beetle.