Glaresis Král & Hrůzová & Lu & Bai 2017
Creators: name: Král, David
name: Hrůzová, Lucie
name: Lu, Yuanyuan
name: Bai, Ming
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Glaresidae
Glaresis

description: Key for identifying Middle and Central Asian species of GlaresisSpecies distribution adopted from Nikolajev (1987) and Král & Bezděk (2016).
1 Anterior margin of clypeus with four teeth; body length 4.5–5.0 mm; Middle Asia and Kazakhstan, Iran ....................................... ............................................................................................................................................................ Glaresis beckeri Solsky, 1870
- Anterior margin of clypeus without teeth; body length 3.0– 4.5 mm ............................................................................................... 2
2 Pronotum with four shallow grooves beside medial longitudinal groove; mesotibial fossae on meso-metaventrum absent; body length 3.0– 3.6 mm; from central Europe and the Balkan Peninsula to Kazakhstan. ........................... Glaresis rufa Erichson, 1848
- Pronotum almost flat, only with indistinct, shallow medial longitudinal groove (Figs. 1, 11–12); mesotibial fossae on mesometaventrum present (Figs. 5, 15)..................................................................................................................................................... 3
3 Anterior margin of clypeus broadly rounded; posterior angles of pronotum not protruding as spines; mesotibia shorter with distal part of outer edge distinctly emarginate; mesotibial fossae on meso-metaventrum present, shallowly impressed, without sharp edges; body length 3.4–4.5 mm; Middle Asia and Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan ......... Glaresis oxiana Semenov, 1892
- Anterior margin of clypeus straight to shallowly emarginate (Figs. 4, 14); posterior angles of pronotum protruding more or less as spines (Figs. 1, 11–12); mesotibia longer with distal part of outer edge straight or shallowly emarginate (Figs. 7–8, 17–18); mesotibial fossae on meso-metaventrum present, distinctly impressed, with sharp edges, divergent posteriad; body length 4.0– 4.5 mm (Figs 5, 15) ................................................................................................................................................................................ 4
4 Distal part of outer edge of mesotibiae straight, bearing at least 7–9 short, stout spines (Figs 17–18); basal external tooth on mesotibia straight basally; aedeagus as in Fig. 13; body length 4.3–4.5 mm; China (Inner Mongolia) and Mongolia (Bayankhongor, Ömnögovi).......................................................................................................................... Glaresis orientalis Medvedev, 1976
- Distal part of outer edge of mesotibiae shallowly emarginate, bearing 4–6 short, stout spines (Figs 7–8); basal external tooth on mesotibia emarginate basally; aedeagus as in Fig. 3; body length 4.0– 4.3 mm; China (Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi)........................... ......................................................................................................................................................... Glaresis ordosensis new species
description: Published as part of Král, David, Hrůzová, Lucie, Lu, Yuanyuan & Bai, Ming, 2017, First records of Glaresidae (Coleoptera) in China, with the description of a new species from Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi, pp. 145-150 in Zootaxa 4306 (1) on page 148, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/843081