Necrophagous insects are known to travel over long distances to locate and colonize decomposing remains. Due to their early arrival time at a corpse, they are a major resource used by forensic practitioners to provide an accurate estimation of the minimum postmortem interval (PMI min) [1-6] given selected assumptions. Generally, the first inhabitants are blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) [7],
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