A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Indoors forensic entomology: Colonization of human remains in closed environments by specific species of sarcosaprophagous flies
Authors: Pohjoismaki JLO, Karhunen PJ, Goebeler S, Saukko P, Saaksjarvi IE
Publisher: ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
Publication year: 2010
Journal: Forensic Science International
Journal name in source: FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL
Journal acronym: FORENSIC SCI INT
Number in series: 1-3
Volume: 199
Issue: 1-3
First page : 38
Last page: 42
Number of pages: 5
ISSN: 0379-0738
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.02.033
Abstract
Fly species that are commonly recovered on human corpses concealed in houses or other dwellings are often dependent on human created environments and might have special features in their biology that allow them to colonize indoor cadavers. In this study we describe nine typical cases involving forensically relevant flies on human remains found indoors in southern Finland. Eggs, larvae and puparia were reared to adult stage and determined to species. Of the five species found the most common were Lucilia sericata Meigen, Calliphora vicina Robineau-Desvoidy and Protophormia terraenovae Robineau-Desvoidy. The fleshfly Sarcophaga caerulescens Zetterstedt is reported for the first time to colonize human cadavers inside houses and a COI gene sequence based DNA barcode is provided for it to help facilitate identification in the future. Fly biology, colonization speed and the significance of indoors forensic entomological evidence are discussed. (c) 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
Fly species that are commonly recovered on human corpses concealed in houses or other dwellings are often dependent on human created environments and might have special features in their biology that allow them to colonize indoor cadavers. In this study we describe nine typical cases involving forensically relevant flies on human remains found indoors in southern Finland. Eggs, larvae and puparia were reared to adult stage and determined to species. Of the five species found the most common were Lucilia sericata Meigen, Calliphora vicina Robineau-Desvoidy and Protophormia terraenovae Robineau-Desvoidy. The fleshfly Sarcophaga caerulescens Zetterstedt is reported for the first time to colonize human cadavers inside houses and a COI gene sequence based DNA barcode is provided for it to help facilitate identification in the future. Fly biology, colonization speed and the significance of indoors forensic entomological evidence are discussed. (c) 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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