What is this insect?

[Simon1287]

    Anyone know what this little critter is? Maybe a centimetre or so long.

 

    I put my hand on the curtains to pull them across this morning and felt a sharp kind of pain in the middle finger of my right hand.

 

    Then the little bug fell from the curtain.

 

    No sign of a puncture mark at all. Totally nothing at all visually or anything else out of the ordinary since the initial stab.

 

    Simon

Edited August 25, 2018 by Simon1287

[sinbin]

Longhorn beetle, maybe?

 

Edited August 25, 2018 by sinbin

[Simon1287]

Maybe I imagined the stab but I thought it felt like touching the end of a sharp piece of wire.

 

Finger looks and feels totally normal after two hours.

 

I suppose I wasn't expecting to feel anything other than curtain material so anything else i.e grabbing a beetle would have been a shock anyway!

 

 

[Simon1287]

Sure looks like one sinbin! Thanks.

 

 

[Simon1287]

Sounds pretty much like it. Google:

 

"Asian longhorn beetle. None of these beetles can sting, and although they can pinch with their mandibles they are not strong enough to break the skin."

 

Probably pinched me I reckon. 

[tropo]

Did you not notice the 2 spikes on the upper sides that can clearly be seen in your photo. That may have been what you felt.

 

It looks like a stink bug. They give off a very unpleasant odour when you touch them, so I always use a tissue when putting them out.