A mite recorded from South Africa.
In the female specimens examined in the 2008 revision, the dorsal shield is lightly reticulate.
The female holotype was collected on Phoenix reclinata in one event on 14 April 1955 at Munster, South Africa.
In the female specimens examined in the 2008 revision, the movable cheliceral digit has 3 teeth and the fixed digit has 5.
In the female specimens examined in the 2008 revision, the spermathecal calyx is short, broad and cup-shaped.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.