Rhizoglyphus is a genus of mites in the family Acaridae. It has a worldwide distribution and is often associated with the bulbs, corms or tubers of plants.
Rhizoglyphus is a genus of mites in the family Acaridae. It has a worldwide distribution and is often associated with the bulbs, corms or tubers of plants.
== Description and life cycle == Rhizoglyphus begin their lives as whitish, ellipsoidal eggs that are 0.12 mm long. These hatch into larvae, which are oval, white and have three pairs of legs. Larvae are 0.15-0.2 mm long on hatching and grow to 0.25 mm long. Larvae then develop into protonymphs, which are 0.4 mm long and (compared to larvae) gain an additional leg pair and two genital suckers.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).