Insects of forensic importance from Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil

Revista Brasileira de Entomologia

Alex Sandro Barros De Souza²  Frederico Dutra Kirst²  Rodrigo Ferreira Krüger¹ 

[1] ,Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da AmazôniaManaus AM

关键词: Carrion fauna;    Coleoptera;    Diptera;    forensic entomology;    IPM;    Diptera;    Coleoptera;    decomposição;    entomologia forense;    IPM;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0085-56262008000400016

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The experiment was conducted throughout the year 2005, at the Universidade Federal de Pelotas campus. The objectives of the study were to analyze the decomposition of rabbit (Oryctolagus cunniculus L.) with mean weight 2.67 Kg carcass and describe the interaction of insects acting on it, as well as the insect's potential use in legal medicine. We collected 5.239 insect specimens; 1.827 of them were obtained from larvae collected from carcasses and reared. The specimens were identified and 20 species were of forensic importance. The species Lucilia eximia (Wiedemann, 1819) and Chrysomya albiceps (Wiedemann, 1819) (Diptera, Calliphoridae) were better indicators of post-mortem interval (PMI) because they occurred in all seasons and were the first to reach the carcass. Hemilucilia semidiaphana (Rondani, 1850), H. segmentaria (Fabricius, 1805) (Diptera, Calliphoridae), Muscina stabulans (Fallén, 1817) and Synthesiomyia nudiseta (Wulp, 1883) (Diptera, Muscidae) can disclose death time because they occur only in certain months of the year. Oxyletrum discicolle (Brullé, 1840) (Coleoptera, Silphidae) and Dermestes maculates De Geer, 1774 (Coleoptera, Desmestidae) were found in advanced stages of decomposition.

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