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Glaresis is a genus of beetles, sometimes called " enigmatic scarab beetles ", in its own family, the Glaresidae.

It is closely related to scarab beetles.

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 species occur in extremely limited geographic areas, and are accordingly imperiled by habitat destruction.