Where to send insect for identification

I found this in my kitchen late at night.  To my untrained eye it looks very similar to a kissing bug.  Where do I send this thing off to be checked out?  It is currently in a glass spice bottle in my freezer


The circle in the picture is part of the label, not a part of the insect 


Looks like a weevil (possibly black vine weevil)


Black vine weevil........only dangerous if you operate a commercial nursery.


http://idl.entomology.cornell.edu/


Looks like it costs $25. Perhaps best to leave to MOL sleuths. 


Doesn’t look wide enough to be the weevil. Thankfully the head is wrong for the kissing bug.  It might be a masked hunter, but that comes with its own issues, i.e. what arthropod food source lured it into the house 


spontaneous said:
Doesn’t look wide enough to be the weevil. Thankfully the head is wrong for the kissing bug.  It might be a masked hunter, but that comes with its own issues, i.e. what arthropod food source lured it into the house 

 I, too, think masked hunter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduvius_personatus

The masked hunter is a predator of small arthropods, including woodlicelacewingsearwigsbed bugs and termites.





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