A mite recorded from South Africa.
In the female specimens examined in the 2008 revision, the dorsal shield is reticulate medially between setae j1 and Z4 and striate elsewhere.
In one event on 9 January 1964 at Pafuri in Kruger National Park, South Africa, the female holotype and two female paratypes were collected on Acacia xanthophlea.
In the female specimens examined in the 2008 revision, the movable cheliceral digit has one tooth and the fixed digit has 3.
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.