I have found in a wooden house, in the mountains of central Spain this very curious insect:
I was wondering if that was its skin or whether it's decomposition or sand or saw-dust. That particular region of Spain does have stink-bugs ... but this one doesn't look like anything I've seen before. A google image search returns mostly arachnids ... but it seems to have only 6 legs.
Answer
It's a kind of assassin bug, specifically a Masked Hunter:
The surface of an immature Masked Hunter is sticky and it attracts lint and dust which helps to camouflage this predator.
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The name refers to the fact that its nymph camouflages itself with dust.
Though they feed on small insects, they will bite defensively, and when they do, it's fairly painful.
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