Abstract
The Carpoglyphidae is a small family of two genera and six species (Schatz et al . 2011) and five of the species are in the genus Carpoglyphus (Clark et al . 2010). The dried fruit mite, Carpoglyphus lactis L., has received renewed interest in recent years due to its role as an alternative food for predatory mites in the Phytoseiidae that are used in biological control (Baxter et al. 2011). In New Zealand, there has been interest by the biocontrol industry to import this species into New Zealand for mass-rearing of predatory mites. However, there has been some confusion about the presence of this species in New Zealand. In this short note, I clarify its nomenclatural status and also its New Zealand records.
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