Artropofauna de importancia forense en un cadáver de cerdo en el Callao, Perú

Coleoptera associated with pig carcass exposed in a forest reserve, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

“…The decomposition of pig carcasses weighting 10 kg (Carvalho & Linhares 2001), 3.64 kg (Iannacone 2003) and 17.7 kg (Wolff et al 2001) lasted, respectively, 20 days in Campinas, southeastern of Brazil, 84 days, in Callao, Peru and seven months, in Medelllín, Colombia while in the present experiment, it lasted only eight days, probably because of the higher temperature. The sampling was possible even during rainfall, which occurred in the first day of putrefaction, as some species hide beneath the carcasses.…”

Diagnosis and key of the main families and species of South American Coleoptera of forensic importance

“…Use of infested woolen materials can cause allergic reactions like urticarial and papulovesicular lesions in man (Ahmed et al 1981). Scampini et al 2002Scampini et al 2002Scampini et al 2002Scampini et al 2002Scampini et al 2002Luederwaldt 1911Scampini et al 2002Carvalho et al 2000Wolff et al 2001Cruz & Vasconcelos 2006Mise et al 2007Mise et al 2007Mise et al 2007Mise et al 2007Mise et al 2007Luederwaldt 1911Centeno et al 2002;Mise et al 2007Luederwaldt 1911Souza & Linhares 1997;Carvalho et al 2000;Wolff et al 2001;Centeno et al 2002;Iannacone 2003;Carvalho et al 2004;Mise et al2007Cruz & Vasconcelos 2006Centeno et al 2002Jirón & Cartín 1981Souza & Linhares 1997Carvalho et al 2000;Centeno et al 2002;Iannacone 2003;Velásquez 2007;Carvalho et al 2004;Mise et al 2007Souza & Linhares 1997 Mise et al 2007Wolff et al 2001Carvalho et al 2004Centeno et al 2002…”

Beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) associated with pig carcasses exposed in a Caatinga area, Northeastern Brazil

“…The last one is the most forensically important Coleoptera species in the Neotropical region and was more abundant in the dry season (69.4%) ( Table 2). Several authors have reported the presence of adults and larvae of D. maculatus on carcasses and corpses in Brazil (Souza and Linhares, 1997;Carvalho et al, 2000;Carvalho et al, 2004;Mise et al, 2007;Rosa et al, 2011) and the rest of the Neotropical region (Iannacone, 2003;Velásquez, 2008;Valdes-Perezgasga et al, 2010;Battán Horenstein and Linhares, 2011;Aballay et al, 2012). Mise et al (2007), in an Araucaria forest fragment, found only 22 specimens of D. maculatus, while Rosa et al (2011), in an area of Cerrado, collected 4,874 individuals, the majority in the dry season (94.6%), the same as in the present study.…”