Key to the adults of the most common forensic species of Diptera in South America

Carvalho, Cláudio José Barros de; Mello-Patiu, Cátia Antunes de

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“…The adults were killed by freezing, pinned and identified using taxonomic keys Couri and Carvalho, 2002;Mello, 2003;Carvalho and Mello-Patiu, 2008). A portion of the maggots (10%) was preserved in commercial ethyl alcohol 70%, whereas the remaining specimens were reared with an artificial diet until the emergence of the adults, in order to confirm larval identification (Oliveira-Costa, 2011).…”

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Differential Diptera succession patterns onto partially burned and unburned pig carrion in southeastern Brazil

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In the present contribution we compared the entomological succession pattern of a burned carcass with that of an unburned one. For that, we used domestic pig carcasses and focused on Calliphoridae, Muscidae and Sarcophagidae flies, because they are the ones most commonly used in Postmortem Interval estimates. Adult and immature flies were collected daily. A total of 27 species and 2,498 specimens were collected, 1,295 specimens of 26 species from the partially burned carcass and 1,203 specimens of 22 species from the control carcass (unburned). The species composition in the two samples differed, and the results of the similarity measures were 0.875 by Sorensen and 0.756 by Bray-Curtis index. The results obtained for both carcasses also differ with respect to the decomposition process, indicating that the post mortem interval would be underestimated if the entomological succession pattern observed for a carcass under normal conditions was applied to a carbonized carcass.Keywords: Forensic Entomology, post mortem interval, burnt carcass, Caliptratae, flies. Diferenças no padrão de sucessão de Diptera em carcaças de porco parcialmente carbonizadas e não carbonizadas ResumoNesta contribuição, nós comparamos o padrão de sucessão entomológica de uma carcaça carbonizada com outra não carbonizada. Para tal, nós usamos carcaças de porcos domésticos e focamos nos dípteros Calliphoridae, Muscidae e Sarcophagidae, por estes serem os grupos de insetos mais comumente usados na estimativa do intervalo pós-morte.Moscas adultas e seus imaturos foram coletados diariamente. Um total de 27 espécies e 2.498 espécimes foi coletado, 1.295 espécimes de 26 espécies na carcaça parcialmente carbonizada e 1.203 espécimes de 22 espécies na carcaça controle (não carbonizada). A composição específica das duas amostras foi diferente e os cálculos de similaridade resultantes foram 0,875 pelo índice de Sorensen e 0,756 pelo índice de Bray-Curtis. Os resultados obtidos para ambas as carcaças também diferiram em relação ao processo de decomposição, indicando que o intervalo pós-morte poderia ser subestimado se o padrão de sucessão entomológica observado na decomposição de uma carcaça sob condições normais fosse aplicado a uma carcaça carbonizada.Palavras-chave: Entomologia Forense, intervalo pós-morte, carcaça carbonizada, Caliptratae, moscas.

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Differential Diptera succession patterns onto partially burned and unburned pig carrion in southeastern Brazil

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“…Males were set in entomological pins with their external genitalia exposed, in order to observe the structures that allow species identification. They were identified following the keys of Carvalho & Mello-Patiu (2008), Buenaventura et al (2009) and Pape & Dahlem (2010), the catalogue by Pape (1996), some descriptions and redescriptions (e.g. Lopes 1946, 1962, 1975, Leite & Lopes 1989, Lopes & Leite 1991, Lopes & Tibana 1991, Guimarães 2004, Giroux et al 2010 and through the revision of the Sarcophagidae reference collection deposited in the Entomological Collection of University of Antioquia (Colección de Entomología de la Universidad de Antioquia -CEUA), identified by Thomas Pape and Cátia Antunes de MelloPatiu, specialists on this family.…”

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Sinantropía de Sarcophagidae (Diptera) en La Pintada, Antioquia-Colombia

Yepes-Gaurisas

Sánchez-Rodríguez

Mello-Patiu

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Sinantropía de Sarcophagidae (Diptera) en La Pintada, Antioquia-Colombia. Recently, populations of flies have increased in numbers given the elevated levels of organic matter waste produced by anthropic activities and domestication of animals. Such increase represents a worldwide health concern, since flies can be vectors of human diseases. The great variety of feeding and developmental habits of flies of the family Sarcophagidae taking place on animal corpses, feces and decomposed organic matter make them potential vectors of pathogens. Herein, we evaluated the synanthropic index (SI), as well as other ecological aspects of this family, through simultaneous monthly samplings in three areas with different degrees of human disturbance (urban, rural and forest). Each area had four van Someren Rydon traps, each one with a different bait (i.e., human feces, chicken viscera, fish and decomposing onion). Traps were active during 48 hours each month, and specimen collection was made every 12 hours. A total of 7 446 Sarcophagidae individuals were collected (1 275 males and 6 171 females), belonging to 27 species and nine genera. Tricharaea (Sarcophagula) canuta (SI=+96.67), Oxysarcodexia taitensis (SI=+93.85), Peckia (Peckia) chrysostoma (SI=+90.00) and Tricharaea (Sarcophagula) occidua (SI=+88.76) exhibited the highest values of synanthropy index, revealing a strong preference for human settlements. The most abundant species were Oxysarcodexia conclausa (21.80%), Ravinia effrenata (18.67%), Oxysarcodexia bakeri (11.45%) and Oxysarcodexia taitensis (10.20%), all of which exhibited preference for urban environments. Additionally, we are reporting seven new records of Sarcophagid flies for Colombia: Oxysarcodexia angrensis, Oxysarcodexia bakeri, Oxysarcodexia diana, Oxysarcodexia similata, Oxysarcodexia timida, Peckia (Peckia) pexata and Titanogrypa (Cucullomyia) placida. Rev. Biol. Trop. 61 (3): 1275-1287. Epub 2013 September 01.

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“…The flies that belong to the Calliphoridae, Mesembrinellidae, Muscidae, Sarcophagidae, and Fanniidae families are mostly associated with decaying meat and/or corpses (D'ALMEIDA; ALMEIDA, 1998; CARVALHO; MELLO-PATIU, 2009). Several species can also develop in vegetable organic matter.…”

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“…The fish used is popularly known as "piauthree-spots" -Leporinus reinhardt (Anostomidae, Characiformes). The flies catched were killed with ethyl acetate and taken to the Embrapa Beef Cattle Entomology Laboratory -Animal Health Sector -, at which species screening and quantification were performed based on especific keys (CARVALHO; RIBEIRO, 2000;SCHUEHLI;CARVALHO, 2005;MELLO-PATIU, 2009). After that, species to be confirmed and/or identified were sent to the Federal University of Parana, in Curitiba, to the Center for Environmental and Wildlife Studies (CDZOO).…”

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New records of Muscidae (Diptera) in Campo Grande, MS, Brazil

Luiz

Taira

Koller

2012

Rev. Bras. Parasitol. Vet.

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Synanthropic flies outstanding beside other flies due their relative abundance close to domestic animals and human population, to which they are able to cause myiasis or transmit pathogenic agents. As they're necrophagous they act as corpse decomposers and are useful in the forensic entomology in the post mortem interval determination. This study aimed to know flies diversity and abundance in Campo Grande, State of Mato Grosso do Sul. Captures were made weekly, utilizing three traps baited with decaying fish meat, from June of 2008 to May of 2009 in a remainder ciliary forest of the Embrapa's Cattle Beef Experimental Farm. The dipterans families that were considered and respectively number of collected specimens were: Calliphoridae (105,334); Muscidae (27,999); Sarcophagidae (21,083); Fanniidae (17,759) and Mesembrinellidae (305), totalizing 172,480 dipterous. To the local known species some Muscidae were increased as follows: Neomuscina atincticosta, Pseudoptilolepis elbida, Polietina orbitalis, Polietina flavithorax, Scutellomusca scutellaris, Graphomya analis and Morellia couriae.

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Key to the adults of the most common forensic species of Diptera in South America

Cited by 266 publications

References 14 publications

Differential Diptera succession patterns onto partially burned and unburned pig carrion in southeastern Brazil

Differential Diptera succession patterns onto partially burned and unburned pig carrion in southeastern Brazil

Sinantropía de Sarcophagidae (Diptera) en La Pintada, Antioquia-Colombia

New records of Muscidae (Diptera) in Campo Grande, MS, Brazil

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