ID on this bug?

[Nautilus]

ID on this bug, found in Coastal Papua New Guinea?

[wbla3335]

My first impression was a cockroach, but when I searched for other images, the front legs look too robust, and the head is too fused with the thorax. Maybe it's a cockroach adapted for burrowing. Or something else.

[Nautilus]

I have no idea. On the front of the beetle are two "pincers", however the bug didn't use these when picked up.

[wbla3335]

How about one of these?

http://www.eduwebs.org/bugs/giant_water_bug.htm

[marquitosgm]

This is what it is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepidae

Cheers

[Darby]

It's not unusual to find them out of the water, either - for a while last year they were common in the parking lot of the business my daughter worked at.