Agriotes obscurus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Distribution in Iran. Iran (no locality cited) (Modarres Awal 1997; Bagheri et al. 2004b; Khanjani 2006).

General distribution. Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia-Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine (Cate 2007), Korea (Platia & Han 2010); Nearctic Region imported.

Comments. Presence of this species in Iran is doubtful and needs confirmation.