Bryobia graminum, also known as the clover mite, is a species of mite with a cosmopolitan distribution.
It was first described in 1781 by Franz von Paula Schrank as Acarus graminum.
Its hosts are mainly herbaceous plants (grasses & daisies).
Synonymy Further synonymy is given in the Australian government funded Lucid key to mites.
Bryobia cristata (Duges) Oudemans, 1905, synonymy Livshits & Mitrofanov, 1971Livshits, I.Z. and Mitrofanov, V.I. (1971) The mites of the genus Bryobia C.L. Koch, 1836 (Acariformes, Bryobiidae). Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Nikitskogo Botanicheskogo Sada 51: 1-112 Bryobia haustor (Hardy) Oudemans, 1937, synonymy Oudemans, 1937Oudemans, A.C. (1937) Kritisch Historisch Overzicht der Acarologie. 3(C): IX-XXIII + 799-1348
References
External links Spider mites of Australia: Bryobia graminum