Glaresis, Král & Hrůzová & Lu & Bai, 2017

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, Zootaxa 4306 (1), pp. 145-150 : 148

Key for identifying Middle and Central Asian species of Glaresis Species 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

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 10. Glaresis ordosensis Král, Hrůzová, Lu, & Bai, new species. 1, Habitus, holotype, ♂, dorsal view; 2, habitus, allotype, ♀, ventral view; 3, aedeagus, dorsal view; 4, head, dorsal view; 5, meso-metaventral oblique grooves, ventral view; 6, detail of left elytron, dorsal view; 7, left mesothoracic leg, dorsal view; 8, left mesothoracic leg, ventral view; 9, right metathoracic leg, dorsal view; 10, right metathoracic leg, ventral view.

FIGURES 11 – 20. Glaresis orientalis Medvedev, 1976 ♂ from Alxa, China (11) and Bayankhongor Province, Mongolia (12 – 20). 11, habitus, dorsal view; 12, habitus, dorsal view; 13, aedeagus, dorsal view; 14, head, dorsal view; 15, meso-metaventral oblique grooves, ventral view; 16, detail of left elytron, dorsal view; 17, left mesothoracic leg, dorsal view; 18, left mesothoracic leg, ventral view; 19, right metathoracic leg, dorsal view; 20, right metathoracic leg, ventral view.