title: Oligonychus sacchari
text: # Oligonychus sacchari
  
  Oligonychus sacchari, the sugarcane mite, yellow mite or sugarcane yellow mite, is a species of mite.
  
  ## Ecology
  
  The main plant host for O. sacchari is sugar cane, but it also been observed on other grasses, including Bambusa arundinacea, Setaria italica, Sorghum arundinaceum, Sorghum halepense and Sorghum vulgare, and an orchid of the genus Dendrobium.
  
  ## Taxonomy
  
  Oligonychus sacchari was first described by E. A. McGregor in 1942 under the name Paratetranychus sacchari. The type specimen was living on sugar cane on the island of Puerto Rico.
  
  