A mite recorded from South Africa.
In the female specimens examined in the 2008 revision, the dorsal shield is strongly reticulate.
One female paratype was collected on Geranium canescens in one event on 11 February 1982 in Golden Gate National Park, South Africa.
In the female specimens examined in the 2008 revision, the movable cheliceral digit has one tooth and the fixed digit has 4.
In the female specimens examined in the 2008 revision, the spermathecal calyx is a broad tube.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.