Journal
PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH
Volume 114, Issue 4, Pages 1463-1472Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-015-4329-y
Keywords
Calliphoridae; Species identification; Middle East; Forensic entomology
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- Polish National Science Centre [2012/07/B/NZ8/00158]
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The lack of reliable tools for species identification of necrophagous blowflies of the Middle East is a serious obstacle to the development of forensic entomology in the majority of countries of this region. Adding to the complexity of diagnosing the regional fauna is that species representing three different zoogeographical elements exist in sympatry. In response to this situation, a high-quality key to the adults of all species of forensically relevant blowflies of the Middle East has been prepared. Thanks to the modern technique of image-stack stereomicroscopy and high-quality entomological materials, this new key can be easily applied by investigators inexperienced in the taxonomy of blowflies. The major technical problems relating to the species identification of necrophagous blowflies of the Middle East are also discussed.
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