A morphological study of the genus Penthalodes (Acari, Prostigmata, Eupodoidea, Penthalodidae) with description of a new species Author Jesionowska, Katarzyna text Zootaxa 2010 2672 29 49 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.199162 d399490b-bdf4-43c8-9314-829859fdce53 1175-5326 199162 Penthalodes alaskaensis n. sp. Synonym: P. ovalis Strandtmann, 1971 , Pacific Insects 13, 1, 75–118 Locus typicus : Northern Alaska, tundra samples Diagnosis. Epirostrum trilobed, middle part pentagon-shaped, with wide base and sharp, triangular tip; lateral lobes narrow, parallel to middle part, in greater part fused with it. Free parts of lateral lobes tongue-shaped with sharp tips directed antiaxially. Ornament of epirostrum reticulate. Dorsal idiosomal setae, except setae ro and bo , plumose. Rhagidial organ I with two recumbent baculiform solenidia, in tandem lying in confluent depressions. Stellate famulus subtending rhagidial organ I. Rhagidial organ II with three recumbent baculiform solenidia lying in tandem in confluent depressions. Solenidia of rhagidial organ I and two proximal solenidia of rhagidial organ II equal in size. Longest solenidion is the third distal solenidion of rhagidial organ II. For the original description and deposition of type specimens see Strandtmann (1971) .