A peer-reviewed open-access journal ZooKeys 515: 59–66 (2015)The agnarid terrestrial isopods( Isopoda, Oniscidea, Agnaridae)... 59 doi: 10.3897/zookeys.515.9125 RESEARCH ARTICLE http://zookeys.pensoft.net Launched to accelerate biodiversity research The agnarid terrestrial isopods (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Agnaridae) of the province of Qazvin, Iran, with a description of a new species Behjat Eshaghi1, Bahram H. Kiabi1, Ghasem M. Kashani2 1 Department of Zoology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University G.C. Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran Corresponding author: Ghasem M. Kashani (
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[email protected]) Academic editor: Stefano Taiti | Received 12 December 2014 | Accepted 2 March 2015 | Published 30 July 2015 http://zoobank.org/4FB27EC6-2FCA-4C22-8E8E-3BB8B841AC53 Citation: Eshaghi B, Kiabi BH, Kashani GM (2015) The agnarid terrestrial isopods (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Agnaridae) of the province of Qazvin, Iran, with a description of a new species. In: Taiti S, Hornung E, Štrus J, Bouchon D (Eds) Trends in Terrestrial Isopod Biology. ZooKeys 515: 59–66. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.515.9125 Abstract Six species of terrestrial isopods from the province of Qazvin, central Iran, are recorded. Three species, Hemilepistus klugii (Brandt, 1833), Protracheoniscus ehsani Kashani, 2014 and Mongoloniscus persicus Kashani, 2014, were previously reported from the province. Hemilepistus elongatus Budde-Lund, 1885 and Protracheoniscus major (Dollfus, 1903) are recorded for the first time, and one species, Protracheoniscus sarii sp. n., is described as new. The diagnostic characters of the new species are figured. Keywords Oniscidea, Agnaridae, new species, Qazvin, Iran Introduction Several contributions on the terrestrial isopod fauna of Iran have recently been pub- lished (Khalaji-Pirbalouti and Wägele 2010; Kashani et al.