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This just crawled out of my sink (imgur.com)
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Reverse image search says Russian Leather Beetle but I live in Western Pennsylvania of the USA which it says they aren’t native to. Any ideas?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It wasn’t shiny like that article claims it to be, though that may be because it climbed out of a sink drain. Who knows what was on it. However it does look very close.

This made me look up osmoderma in Pennsylvania which linked me this:

https://bugguide.net/node/view/1664529

This looks exactly like it, and is what you linked. So I think your spot on since it doesn’t seem to need to be iridescent. Thanks for answering! (Sorry for the late reply. I stepped out for a bit like 20 minutes after I posted this)