(I am not a cockroach)
Is there an entomologist in the house? (Keith, I'm looking at yooooou!)
Mr. Kallisti found Mr. Creepy on our back porch a couple days ago (he's since been let free in the marshes very far from our house). He's about 1 1/4" long.
Now, this is California. We don't get bugs here. Not discounting Augie's recent wrangle with a brown recluse. The weirdest bug we have are the indigenous potato bugs (the mere mention of which will give a native californian the serious willies).
http://whatsthatbug.com/beetles5.html
Near the bottom. Google image search scares up many more pictures that are similar! Will post when/if it is confirmed.
I love bugs.
You can try http://www.whatsthatbug.com/ and see if they have this guy archived. All my books with bugs in them are local to Florida. And my people who would know are at work. :p.
Yes! Someone else suggested that site... after combing the archives I think he's a Brown Prionid:
http://whatsthatbug.com/beetles5.html
Near the bottom. Google image search scares up many more pictures that are similar!