Comparison between insects gathered on a death corpse from the study site and insects obtained by rearing larvae within the laboratory under natural environmental conditions 

Abstract

Forensic entomology is the use of insect and others arthropods in solving crime. During this purpose, forensic entomologists use carrion insect communities to produce evidence in case of murder, suicide, neglect, accident or poaching, since they are natural witnesses of the crime scene. This offers of insects as physical evidence during legal procedures are use worldwide except in Africa where the documentation of this domain is poor. The present study was to compare the diversity of necrophagous insect gathered at the study site and that of the insect obtain from the rearing of thier larvae in the laboratory under natural environmental conditions. Adult flies were identified to species level. Overall, 3414 adult flies were obtained both from the census on the field and from the rearing in the laboratory. These flies belong to 3 classes of insects namely, Insect, Arachnida and Myriapoda with 3343, 70 and 1 individual respectively, distributed amongst 9 orders, 30 families, 20 genus and 27 species.