A mite recorded from South Africa.
In the female specimens examined in the 2008 revision, the dorsal shield is reticulate between setae j1 and Z4 and striate posterior to Z4.
In one event on 28 January 1965 in Mountain Zebra National Park, South Africa, the female holotype and two female paratypes were collected on Dodonaea viscosa.
In the female specimens examined in the 2008 revision, the movable cheliceral digit has 2 teeth and the fixed digit has 2.
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.