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I am from Philippines and I found this in my room.

This arthropod has 6 legs and have a bit long Chelicerae like spiders that can fold to hold its food. It's about half an inch long. It also looks like a scorpion but I could not find anything like it on the internet. Thank you!

I've also noticed that it can jump and it also produced spider silk.

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It is not a pseudoscorpion as those would have 8 legs and then the two front large pincers. This is most likely a kind a jumping spider where the two large front legs count as two of the 8 legs.

Depending on your geography (not given in the question), this looks to resemble a jumping spider in the genus Chalcolecta (or some regional variant of that based on where you are). Hard to see any detail (like eyes and body segments) from your photos. But have a look at some of these and see if any of them match your specimen. Here are some pics of C.prensitans and C.simon.

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  • $\begingroup$ This is actually the closest one. I noticed that it can jump and produces silk like a spider. However, the tip of its abdomen does bend sometimes. $\endgroup$
    – Carl Ortiz
    Oct 29, 2020 at 7:40

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