Résumé
The species Penthalodes ovalis was described by Dugès (1834) as Megamerus ovalis from an unknown European locality, but the description of this species was very brief and incomplete (Kalúz, 2000). More than one hundred year later, Thor and Willmann (1941) have given a more detailed re-description about this species, but only using the available information from literature. Strandtmann (1971) presented a new description based on specimens collected in Alaska (USA). Baker (1990) discussed the morphology of mites of the superfamily Eupodoidea including Penthalodes ovalis and mentioned the investigated species which were collected in British regions, but the first exact re-description of the continental European species was presented by Kalúz (2000), who based his work on Slovakian and Turkish specimens. Kalúz (2000) mentioned numerous variables in the morphology among the earlier presented specimens (like shape of eye, shape of polygonal pattern on the dorsal integument and number of aggenital, genital and euanal setae. Later Jesionowska (2010) described Strandtmann’s (1971) species as a new species (Penthalodes alaskaensis Jesionowska, 2010) and she presented another new species (Penthalodes hawaiiensis Jesionowska, 2010) which was mentioned as Penthalodes ovalis from Hawaii by Strandtmann and Goff (1978). In this paper, we present the first record of this species in agricultural area with some notes on the morphology, biology and potential pest status.