Bryobia graminum

Bryobia graminum
	(as B. cristata)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Trombidiformes
Family:	Tetranychidae
Genus:	Bryobia
Species:	B. graminum
Binomial name
	Bryobia graminum; (Schrank, 1781)
Synonyms
	Acarus graminum Schrank, 1781 ; Acarus rufus Schrank, 1776 ; Bryobia amygdali Reck, 1947 ; Bryobia cristata (Dugès, 1834) ; Bryobia gloriosa Koch, 1836 ; Bryobia haustor (Hardy, 1850) ; Bryobia praetiosa Womersley, 1940 ; Bryobia zachvatkini Wainstein, 1956 ; Rhyncholophus haustor Hardy, 1850 ; Tetranychus cristatus Dugès, 1834 ;

Bryobia graminum, also known as the clover mite, is a species of mite with a cosmopolitan distribution.^[2]^[3]

It was first described in 1781 by Franz von Paula Schrank as Acarus graminum.^[2]^[4]

Its hosts are mainly herbaceous plants (grasses & daisies).^[3]

Synonymy[edit]

Further synonymy is given in the Australian government funded^[5] Lucid key to mites.^[3]

Bryobia cristata (Duges) Oudemans, 1905, synonymy Livshits & Mitrofanov, 1971^[6]
Bryobia haustor (Hardy) Oudemans, 1937, synonymy Oudemans, 1937^[7]

^ "Bryobia graminum". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
^ ^a ^b "Bryobia graminum (Schrank, 1781) | Fauna Europaea". fauna-eu.org. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Spider mites of Australia (including key exotic southeast Asian pest species) Lucid key: Factsheet - Bryobia graminum (Schrank, 1781)". keys.lucidcentral.org. Archived from the original on 15 January 2022. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
^ Schrank, F.v.P. (1781). "Enumeratio Insectorum Austriae Indiginorum". Beitr. Natur., Augsburg, Germany. 8: 515.
^ Beard, J.J. (2018). "Spider mites of Australia (including key exotic southeast Asian pest species)". keys.lucidcentral.org. Archived from the original on 19 May 2021. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
^ Livshits, 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
^ Oudemans, A.C. (1937) Kritisch Historisch Overzicht der Acarologie. 3(C): IX-XXIII + 799-1348