deroceras invadens is a species of air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family agriolimacidae. until 2011, this widely distributed species was known as "deroceras panormitanum", and earlier as "deroceras caruanae" or "agriolimax caruanae", but reise et al. (2011) showed that these names refer to a distinct species of similar external appearance known at that time only from sicily and malta. consequently, although the more widespread species was already well known, it then had to be redescribed under the new name of "d. invadens".