Glaresis Erichson 1848
Creators: name: Gordon, Robert D.
name: Hanley, Guy A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Glaresidae
Glaresis

description: Key to species of Glaresis - Phoenicis group   
 1. Apical metatrochanteral border with 3 or 4 small teeth; posterior margin of metafemur with long, strong tooth next to trochanter (Fig. 11G)...............................  G. clypeata Van Dyke    
 — Metatrochanteral border without teeth, sometimes appearing serrate; posterior margin of metafemur without strong tooth, may have blunt angulation................................................ 2   
 2(1). Head surface punctate from clypeal apex to posterior eye margin; anterior clypeal margin with low tubercle or swelling on each side of median emargination (Fig. 8B)..................................................................................................................................................  G. dakotensis Gordon    
 — Head surface tuberculate, tubercles moderate to strong; anterior clypeal margin lacking tubercle or swelling on each side of middle (except G. imitator)............................................................ 3   
 3(1). Posterosuperior margin of metafemur with a single tooth (Fig. 10G); tubercles on head large, dense; apical clypeal tubercles large, pronounced (Fig. 10B); lateral metatibial margin with teeth mostly equal in length except single median tooth pronounced (Fig.)...............................................................................................................................................  G. medialis Gordon    
 — Teeth absent on posterosuperior margin of metatafemur; tubercles on head small, sparse, or large, dense; apical clypeal tubercles small or large; lateral metatibial margin without pronounced median tooth (Fig.10F).............................................................................................................. 4   
 4(3). Posterior metafemoral margin with blunt, angulate tooth next to trochanter (Fig. 7F).......... 6   
 — Posterior metafemoral margin without angulate tooth (Fig. 5F)............................................... 5   
 5(4). Metatrochanteral border without teeth; median lobe of male genitalia narrowed medially, appearing “pinched” (Fig. 5E); in California known from Imperial and San Bernardino Counties...........................................................................................................................  G. montenegro, n. sp.    
 — Metatrochanteral border with 3 small, blunt teeth; (Fig. 6G); median lobe of male genitalia with sides straight in basal 2/3, evenly curved to apex in apical 1/3 (Fig. 6F); known only from type locality, Riverside Co., California.................................................................  G. yanegai, n. sp  .   
 6(4). Clypeal apex with large, strong tubercle on each side of median emargination (Fig. 9B); Mexico, Sonora........................................................................................................... G. imitator , n. sp. — Clypeal apex without tubercle on each side of median emargination (Fig. 7B); Arizona, California........................................................................................................................  G. phoenicis Fall
description: Published as part of Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2014, Systematic revision of American Glaresidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea), pp. 1-91 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (333) on page 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4645613