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