18 research outputs found
First Report of Dermestes frischii Kugelann (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) on a Human Corpse, South of Iran
The necrophagous species of beetles provide useful complementary data to estimate the post-mortem interval in forensic cases. We report, for the first time, Dermestes frischii Kugelann, 1792 larvae from a mummified human body covered with bushes and located in a canal in Sarvestan district, Fars province, south of Iran. The human corpse was a 63 year old male. The time of death was estimated to have been 23 days prior to the finding of the body based on the police investigations and confessions of a suspect. This beetle can be helpful to estimate the time of death in the future
First Report of Dermestes frischii Kugelann (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) on a Human Corpse, South of Iran
The necrophagous species of beetles provide useful complementary data to estimate the post-mortem interval in forensic
cases. We report, for the first time, Dermestes frischii Kugelann, 1792 larvae from a mummified human body covered with
bushes and located in a canal in Sarvestan district, Fars province, south of Iran. The human corpse was a 63 year old male.
The time of death was estimated to have been 23 days prior to the finding of the body based on the police investigations
and confessions of a suspect. This beetle can be helpful to estimate the time of death in the future
First Forensic Record of Blowfly, Calliphora vicina, Larvae on an Indoor Human Corpse in Winter, South of Iran
A new report of necrophagous blowfly, Calliphora vicina (Diptera: Calliphoridae), larvae from a human corpse found in the
bathroom of a house during winter in Shiraz, Fars province, south of Iran, is presented. An autopsy revealed that the cadaver
was an 83-year-old solitary-living Iranian female having a stroke during bath. The minimum time elapsed since death
was estimated to have been less than 5 days prior to the discovery of the bloated cadaver at defined ambient temperatures.
As such, this synanthropic species was associated with the early wave of colonizing cadaver-feeding insects that were found
on a corpse after death. This is the first corroborated evidence of a forensic entomology case involving this bluebottle
blowfly species of insect in south of Iran and this species can be helpful in the future to support the estimation on the time
elapsed since death in this region
Preliminary Data on Life Cycle of Creophilus maxillosus Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) and New Report of this Species on a Human Corpse, South of Iran
Beetles (Coleoptera) have been recognized as significant entomological evidence in the forensic entomology field in estimating
the postmortem interval (PMI). We report on the colonization of an adult human corpse by three beetle species
in Sadra district, Fars province, south of Iran. The adults of Creophilus maxillosus, Dermestes frischii and Hister sp were
all collected from the victim’s body which had been wrapped in a sack. For the life cycle study, Creophilus maxillosus (Coleoptera:
Staphylinidae) adult beetles were allowed to feed, mate and oviposit in rearing chamber (11 × 9 cm) at 23 ± 1°C.
Development rates from the instance mates placed together to the emergence of adults was 41 days. Information from this
study can be helpful in forensic entomology study