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SAUDI JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 26, Issue 7, Pages 1499-1502Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2019.04.011
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Post mortem intervals; Decomposition; Human cadavers; Insects; Cars
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- King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia [1-18-01-001-0001]
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Insect fauna attracted to cadavers at the crime scene can be identified and used to estimate the postmortem interval (PMI). In the current study, insects associated with two human cadavers in a vehicular environment were collected and analysed. The first cadaver was found five days' post mortem in a garage. The second cadaver was found in a car ten days after his death. The weather conditions were obtained from the nearest weather station located to the scenes of the death. During the study, six adults, 32 larvae and egg batches were collected from case 1 and identified as Chrysomya albiceps Wiedemann (Diptera: Calliphoridae). From the second case, two larvae of Megaselia scalaris Loew (Diptera: Foridae) and seven larvae of Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae) were identified. mPMI ranged from five to twelve days. This information expands the knowledge on the insect fauna in the vehicular environment, which could be used to assist estimation of the PMI. (C) 2019 Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V.
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