Summary ²

Glaresis is a genus of beetles, sometimes called "enigmatic scarab beetles", in its own family, the Glaresidae. It is closely related to, and was formerly included in, the family Scarabaeidae. Although its members occur in arid and sandy areas worldwide (except Australia), only the nocturnal adults have ever been collected (typically at lights), and both the larvae and biology of Glaresis are as yet unknown. Due to their narrow habitat associations, a great number of these...

SoCal Status ³

Known Species per The California Beetle Database .
Glaresis clypeata
Glaresis ecostata
Glaresis gordoni
Glaresis howdeni
Glaresis inducta
Glaresis mendica
Glaresis phoenicus

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1. (c) Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:Ent:34442
2. Adapted by BJ Stacey from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaresidae
3. (c) BJ Stacey, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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