New records of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda; Oniscidea) from Iran

During the last few years, some contributions have been published on terrestrial isopod fauna of Iran (Khalaji-Pirbalouti & Wägele 2010; Kashani et al. 2010, 2013;Kashani & Sari 2012); however, currently our knowledge on this taxon is very poor. Since 1885 that Budde-Lund described the first species, more than 30 terrestrialspecies are reported from Iran. Nevertheless, some cosmopolitan or broadly distributed species, expected to be present in this region, are not recorded yet. In the following paragraphs, five species of terrestrial isopods are reported from Iran for the first time. Recently, Kashani et al. (2014) reported two cosmopolitan species, namely Porcellionides pruinosus (Brandt, 1833) and Agabiformius lentus (Budde-Lund, 1885) from Gakal cave, southwestern Iran, while these two species have broad distribution in Iran (unpublished data).