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Brown flour mite

Gohieria fusca (Oudemans)

Status not recordedarachnids

The brown flour mite (Gohieria fusca) is a species in the family Glycyphagidae, order Sarcoptiformes. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Taiwan.

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Quick facts about the brown flour mite

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the brown flour mite live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The brown flour mite is listed for 1 country.

Taiwan
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Taiwan

Why a country list is not a range map

Is the brown flour mite endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the brown flour mite classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classArachnida
  4. orderSarcoptiformes
  5. familyGlycyphagidae
  6. genusGohieria
  7. SpeciesGohieria fusca (Oudemans)

Synonyms Ferminia fusca, Glycyphagus fuscus

Other names and names in other languages (2)
  • peříčkovec moučnýCzech
  • 굵은다리고기응애Korean

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the brown flour mite

Other species in the same family Glycyphagidae.

House mite

Glycyphagus domesticus

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the brown flour mite live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the brown flour mite for 1 country: Taiwan. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the brown flour mite?

The brown flour mite (Gohieria fusca) belongs to the family Glycyphagidae in the order Sarcoptiformes.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Brown flour mite (Gohieria fusca). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/brown-flour-mite

MLA

“Brown flour mite (Gohieria fusca).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/brown-flour-mite.

BibTeX
@misc{brown_flour_mite_2026,
  title = {Brown flour mite (Gohieria fusca)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/brown-flour-mite},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}