Insect succession associated with corpse's decomposition of the guinea pig Cavia porcellus in Benha city, Egypt

Abstract

Eleven domestic guinea pig corpses were employed as models for studying decomposition and insect succession in Benha city, Egypt, from April 2009 to March 2010. Ambient temperature, faunistic succession over time, and the rate of decay in different seasons were all compared. Results indicated that ambient temperature is the chief factor determining the seasonal variations in decay rate. The diversity of insect community increased as the state of decomposition advances. Members of Dermistidae and Forrmicidae were the first coleopteran and hymenopteran colonizers in all seasons. Sarcophaga, Wholfortia and Chrysomya was observed in spring and summer. Meanwhile, species of Wholfortia were absent in winter and Crysomya species were absent in fall. Patterns of insect succession occurred in a predictable sequence that varied across different seasons. The rate of corpse's decomposition was faster in summer and autumn as compared to spring and winter

Successive waves of dipteran flies attracted to warfarin-intoxicated rabbit carcasses in Cairo, Egypt

“…In general, a total of 26 species of the 13 families were collected from control and intoxicated carcasses. Of the reported species, Musca domestica, Musca sorbens, Muscina stabulans, Synthesiomyia nudiseta, Calliphora vicina, Chrysomya albiceps, Chrysomya megacephala, Chrysomya rufifacies, Lucilia sericata, Lucilia cuprina, Wohlfahrtia nuba, Sarcophaga hertipes, Sarcophaga argyrostoma, Piophila casei, Tinearia alternata, Fannia canicularis, Drosophila repleta, and Physiphora alceae were previously reported in Egypt on rabbit carcasses by El-kady et al (1994a), Aly et al (2013), Ibrahim, Galal, Alaa Eddeen, Seufi, and Elhefnawy (2013), and Zeariya et al (2015). Other reported species Stomoxys calcitrans, Helina coniformis, Coproica vagans, Hippobosca equina, Eumerus amoenus, Eupeodes corollae, Scathophaga litorea, and Megaselia scalaris were not reported on carrions before.…”

“…(Drosophilidae), Diplonevra peregrine (Phoridae), Boettcherisca peregrine (Sarcophagidae), Parasarcophaga africa (Sarcophagidae), Parasarcophaga ruficornis (Sarcophagidae), and Allograpta cubana (Syrphidae) (Shalaby, De Carvalho, & Goff, 2000); Sarcophaga aegyptica, Muscina prolapsa, and Fannia leucostica (El-Ghaffar et al, 2008); Musca autumnalis (Aly et al, 2013); Agriella setosa (Sarcophagidae) and Pollenia sp. (Calliphoridae) (Hegazi et al, 1991); Sarcophaga carnaria and Wohlfartia magnefica (Ibrahim et al, 2013); Sarcophaga carnaria, Wohlfahrtia magnifica, Atherigona varia (Muscidae), Sepsis fissa (Sepsidae), Physiphora demandata (Ulidiidae), and Scatella sp. (Ephydridae) (Aly et al, 2017).…”

Medico-Legal Forensic Entomology “Use of Insects in Death Investigations”- A Review

“…Several studies (Hegazi et al, 1991;EL-Kady et al,1994;Tantawi et al,1996;Shalaby et al, 2000;El-Ghaffar et al, 2008;Abd EL-Bar and Sawaby, 2011;Aly et al, 2013Aly et al, & 2017Ibrahim et al, 2013 ;Zeariya et al, 2015Zeariya et al, & 2018Abd El-Bar et al, 2016;and Zeariya and Kabadaia, 2019 were carried out in some parts of Egypt to examine the type and composition of entomofauna that were attracted to different decomposition stages of animal carcasses: rabbits (Oryctolagus curicullus and Lepus cuniculus), guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus.) and dog (Canis lupus familiaris).…”

A Preliminary Study of Insect Succession in Al‐Ahsaa Oasis, in the Eastern Region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

“…About 60% of the faunal succession associated with the various stages of decay is comprised of Diptera and Coleoptera (7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12). The composition and succession patterns of insects on carrion have been studied extensively in many regions of the world, but there have only been a few studies conducted in the Arabian world such as in Egypt (13)(14)(15) and Kuwait (16,17). So far there is only one published study from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), but this was in a mountainous area in southwestern KSA (18), a very different habitat from this study in the eastern region of KSA, which is semi-arid.…”