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title: "Gorse Spider Mite"
description: "Tetranychus lintearius — Insetti e ragni. Tetranychus lintearius, the gorse spider mite, is a species of spider mite."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/gorse-spider-mite
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Gorse Spider Mite

> Tetranychus lintearius — Insetti e ragni. Tetranychus lintearius, the gorse spider mite, is a species of spider mite.

- Scientific name: *Tetranychus lintearius*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 1019
- Wikidata: [Q4401754](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4401754)
- iNaturalist taxon: [409160](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/409160)

## Names

- en: Gorse Spider Mite
- fr: Tétranyque de l’Ajonc

## Countries with the most observations

NZ (302), AU (132), GB (98), FR (96), PT (45), ES (22), CL (9), IE (5)

## Summary

Tetranychus lintearius, the gorse spider mite, is a species of spider mite. It is used as an agent of biological pest control on common gorse, a noxious weed in some countries.
The adult mite is half a millimeter long and bright red. It lives in colonies in a shelter of spun silk spanning many branch tips. Infested plants are easily identifiable by these cobweb-like sheets of silk, which can grow quite large. The female lays one to four eggs per day during her three- to four-week adult lifespan. The tiny nymph is small enough to disperse on the wind during its first stage. Those that stay behind populate the colony…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetranychus_lintearius

## Photo

![Gorse Spider Mite](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/gorse-spider-mite/medium.jpg)

Photo: Aimee Macarthur · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/80702761

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/gorse-spider-mite?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).