insect ID PLEASE!!!

[LayneNugget]

i have this one insect in my collection that i cant for the life of me identify.

i am 99% sure it's a beetle, because it has what i believe to be elytra. it has short thread-like antennae, a short and narrow thorax, and a pretty small abdomen also. it has very un-beetlelike legs though, skinny.

so anywho, i originally thought a carabid, but it's too thin. then cerambycid but the antennae are too short. now i suspect a twig-borer or a bark-gnawer...but i cant find any matched at bugguide.net. anyone have a clue?

 

[LayneNugget]

oh crap, is it a black blister beetle???

 

[Frogsarethapoop]

Definately not a carabid. My guess is some species of tiger beetle, I had a tiger beetle in my collection and it sort of looked like that, although I didn't spread the wings like you did. I only spread the wings on Lepidoptera and Orthoptera.