A mite recorded from South Africa.
In the female specimens examined in the 2008 revision, the dorsal shield is reticulate.
In one collecting event on 19 January 1965 at Tsitsikamma, South Africa, one female paratype was collected on Curtisia dentata.
In the female specimens examined in the 2008 revision, the movable cheliceral digit has three teeth and the fixed digit has five.
In the female specimens examined in the 2008 revision, the spermathecal calyx is a short, broad tube.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.