Phauloppia banksi is a species of mite in the family Oribatulidae.

Found in the United States, it was described as new to science in 1987.

[1] A study conducted in New York that showed that the mite is one of several that takes shelter in the thallus of the common North American lichen Punctelia rudecta.

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