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I keep finding these things in my New York City apartment, and I am very curious what species they are. I thought they were cockroaches at first, but couldn't find any pictures online that would resemble these insects.

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Thanks for a comment--I am now convinced that these are, in fact, spider beetles. Mine look somewhat dissimilar to the ones shown on wikipedia--they are black in color and round in all three dimensions, they looked like balls with legs when they crawled, which totally confused me as to what those things were! enter image description here

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    $\begingroup$ Where in the world do you live? Different insects are present in different places, that might help narrow it down. $\endgroup$
    – Maximilian Press
    Commented Aug 17 at 23:37
  • $\begingroup$ You are absolutely right. How come I didn't think about it? I modified the question. $\endgroup$
    – user85987
    Commented Aug 18 at 8:11
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    $\begingroup$ These look like spider beetles. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_beetle $\endgroup$
    – Rich
    Commented Aug 19 at 19:01
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    – Jiminy Cricket.
    Commented Aug 19 at 19:09

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These look like spider beetles. see here Spider beetles are about 1-5mm long and there are 70 species of them here in N America.
here's more info from whatsthatbug. "They belong to the family Ptinidae and are not considered true spiders or arachnids, but insects." They're not apparently harmful, so I would categorize them as "Mostly Harmless."

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