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FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL
Volume 267, Issue -, Pages 136-144Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2016.07.019
Keywords
Lucilia illustris; Development; Forensic entomology; Isomegalen/isomorphen diagram; Postmortem interval; Thermal summation model
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30870332, 81273352]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education
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Lucilia illustris (Meigen 1826) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) is a cosmopolitan species that commonly colonizes carcasses and occasionally acts as parasites of humans or livestock, making it an insect of significant importance in forensic, medical, and veterinary entomology. However, only a few studies have documented the development of L. illustris. Here, we studied the developmental duration and larval body length changes of L. illustris under nine constant temperatures ranging from 15.0 to 35.0 degrees C. Using these results, we generated an isomorphen diagram, thermal summation model, and isomegalen diagram for L. illustris. Simulation equations of the variation in the larval body length with time after hatching and variation in time after hatching with the body length were also obtained. L. illustris could complete its life cycle in 15.0-32.5 degrees C, while its development was incomplete at 35.0 degrees C, where the pupae failed to transform into adults. The development duration was 955.5 +/- 16.9, 625.7 +/- 16.9, 509.3 +/- 18.3, 410.0 +/- 17.0, 346.7 +/- 12.2, 290.2 +/- 6.7, 257.1 +/- 8.9, and 234.8 +/- 3.2 h at 15.0, 17.5, 20.0, 22.5, 25.0, 27.5, 30.0, and 32.5 degrees C, respectively. The developmental threshold temperature and thermal constant were 9.30 +/- 0.19 degrees C and 5367.2 +/- 98.3 degrees C h, respectively. These results provide an important basis for the use of L. illustris development-based estimation of the minimum postmortem interval (PMImin) in forensic entomology. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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