Spider mimics a bit of debris

suerisa

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I just watched a bit of very randomly shaped debris on a Publix restroom floor get up and skitter several inches then sit and resume the disguise. I blew on it gently a few times; same amazing result.
I don't see it in the leaf/dead leaf spiders I saw in Google search.
Light spots on "extensions".
Who is this spider ???
 

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suerisa

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I just watched a bit of very randomly shaped debris on a Publix restroom floor get up and skitter several inches then sit and resume the disguise. I blew on it gently a few times; same amazing result.
I don't see it in the leaf/dead leaf spiders I saw in Google search.
Light spots on "extensions".
Who is this spider ???
I can’t tell what that is in those pics
 

suerisa

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That's the thing. It is so un-spidery-looking when it is not moving, just looks like a small, loose tangle of yarn, or yarn and string. When disturbed (I blew on it) it rises a tiny bit, skitters away a few inches then stops and drops into that random-looking tangle shape again. It was on the floor in a restroom in a coffee shop (public, not "Publix" in 1st post). When I returned to it later I saw that someone had stepped on it. I gathered the flattened creature in a paper towel. I will take some pics of it and post them here when I have time.
 

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