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Description of the puparium and other notes on the morphological and molecular identification of Phthitia empirica (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae) collected from animal carcasses. EGYPTIAN JOURNAL OF FORENSIC SCIENCES 2020. [DOI: 10.1186/s41935-020-00187-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
Abstract
Background
A correct identification of species is fundamental in order to derive all the biological, ecological, and behavioral information useful to reconstruct previous events when insects are used in forensic and funerary archaeological contexts. Little attention was paid in the past to the description of the immature stages of flies, especially of species belonging to family found only occasionally on human cadavers and animal carrion. Sphaeroceridae species belong to this category.
Results
In this work, adult and puparia of Phthitia empirica (Hutton, 1901) are illustrated and described. In addition, some observations about the molecular identification of this species are presented and discussed.
Conclusions
This work will allow the identification of puparia of this species providing additional tools in forensic entomological investigation. More in general, the effort of producing morphological descriptions and molecular information of species of potential forensic interest clearly implements the possibility to provide a deeper understanding of the peri- and post-mortem events in violent crimes.
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Buenaventura E, Pape T. Multilocus and multiregional phylogeny reconstruction of the genus Sarcophaga (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2017; 107:619-629. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2016] [Revised: 12/20/2016] [Accepted: 12/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Tkoč M, Tóthová A, Ståhls G, Chandler PJ, Vaňhara J. Molecular phylogeny of flat-footed flies (Diptera: Platypezidae): main clades supported by new morphological evidence. ZOOL SCR 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Michal Tkoč
- Department of Entomology; National Museum; Cirkusová 1740, CZ-193 00 Praha 9 Czech Republic
- Department of Zoology; Faculty of Science; Charles University; Viničná 7, CZ-128 00 Praha 2 Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany and Zoology; Faculty of Science; Masaryk University in Brno; Kamenice 753/5, CZ-625 00 Brno Czech Republic
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- Zoology Unit, Finnish Museum of Natural History; University of Helsinki; PO Box 17, 00014 Helsinki Finland
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- Department of Botany and Zoology; Faculty of Science; Masaryk University in Brno; Kamenice 753/5, CZ-625 00 Brno Czech Republic
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Lewis PO, Holder MT, Swofford DL. Phycas: Software for Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis. Syst Biol 2015; 64:525-31. [DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syu132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2014] [Accepted: 12/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Paul O. Lewis
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 N. Eagleville Road, Unit 3043, Storrs, CT 06269, USA; 2Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA; and 3Department of Biology, Box 90338, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 N. Eagleville Road, Unit 3043, Storrs, CT 06269, USA; 2Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA; and 3Department of Biology, Box 90338, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 N. Eagleville Road, Unit 3043, Storrs, CT 06269, USA; 2Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA; and 3Department of Biology, Box 90338, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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