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Bernhard Metz (expert clusiid) wrote to me: "Thank you for the 3 nice photos which show clearly a species (female) of Clusiodes of the family Clusiidae. Jan Willem is correctly giving the problems of identification of the species of the genus. I suspect it is C. albimanus, but this identification is only given with a very big questionmark ???? It could also be C. verticalis which differs in the characters mentioned by Jan Willem. It is not one of the other species he mentioned in his mail (caledonicus, gentilis). There is no way to make a safer identification. Larvae of Clusiidae live under the bark of rotton wood. Usually males are more abundant so it is interesting to read that you saw more females. "