Balaustium graminum

Taxobox
name = "Balaustium graminum"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Chelicerata
classis = Arachnida
subclassis = Acari
superordo = Acariformes

ordo = Prostigmata
subordo = Anystina
unranked_familia = Parasitengona
superfamilia = Erythraeoidea
familia = Erythraeidae
genus = "Balaustium"
species = "B. graminum"
binomial = "Balaustium graminum"
binomial_authority = Meyer & Ryke, 1959

"Balaustium graminum" is a species of mite belonging to the family Erythraeidae. This mite is very closely related and similar to "Balaustium medicagoense" but can distinguished by having two (rather than one) pairs of eyes and being less densely hairy.

The adult is associated with various grasses in the vicinity of Grabouw, South Africa.

References

*"Nine new species of the superfamily Erythraeoidea (Acarina: Trombidiformes) associated with plants in South Africa", Magdalena K.P. Meyer & P.A.J. Ryke, Acarologia I