Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Review of literature. 3. General morphological characters of Tenuipalpidae. 4. List of species treated in this review. 5. Key to the genera of Tenuipalpidae known from India. Genus I. Aegyptobia Sayed. Genus II. Brevipalpus Donnadieu. Genus III. Dolichotetranychus Sayed. Genus IV. Krugeria Meyer. Genus V. Larvacarus Baker and Pritchard. Genus VI. Neoraoiella Mohanasundaram. Genus VII.Obuloides Baker and Tuttle. Genus VIII. Pentamerismus McGregor. Genus IX. Phytoptipalpus Tragardh. Genus X. Priscapalpus De Leon. Genus XI. Raoiella Hirst. Genus XII. Tenuilichus Mohanasundaram. Genus XIII. Tenuipalpus Donnadieu. Genus XIV. Terminalichus Anwarullah and Khan. Genus XV. Ultratenuipalpus Mitrofanov. Some undetermined spp. of different genera reported from India. 6. Economic importance of Indian Tenuipalpid mites. 7. Zoogeographical distribution of Tenuipalpidae: i. Zoogeographical distribution of Tenuipalpid genera (Table 1). ii. Zoogeographical distribution of IndianTenuipalpid species (Table 2 & 3). 8. Host-mite list. 9. Summary. 10. Acknowledgements. 11. References. Index of Tenuipalpid genera and species.