Species identification of adult African blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of forensic importance

  • Necrophagous blowflies can provide an excellent source of evidence for forensic entomologists and are also relevant to problems in public health, medicine, and animal health. However, access to useful information about these blowflies is constrained by the need to correctly identify the flies, and the poor availability of reliable, accessible identification tools is a serious obstacle to the development of forensic entomology in the majority of African countries. In response to this need, a high-quality key to the adults of all species of forensically relevant blowflies of Africa has been prepared, drawing on high-quality entomological materials and modern focus-stacking photomicroscopy. This new key can be easily applied by investigators inexperienced in the taxonomy of blowflies and is made available through a highly accessible online platform. Problematic diagnostic characters used in previous keys are discussed.
Metadaten
Verfasserangaben:Lena LutzORCiDGND, Kirstin A. Williams, Martin H. Villet, Mfon Ekanem, Krzysztof Szpila
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-476987
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-017-1654-y
ISSN:1437-1596
ISSN:0937-9827
ISSN:0044-3433
Pubmed-Id:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28849264
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch):International journal of legal medicine
Verlag:Springer
Verlagsort:Berlin ; Heidelberg
Dokumentart:Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Sprache:Englisch
Jahr der Fertigstellung:2017
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung:28.08.2017
Veröffentlichende Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Datum der Freischaltung:18.10.2018
Freies Schlagwort / Tag:Africa; Blowflies; Calliphoridae; Forensic entomology; Speciesidentification
Jahrgang:132
Ausgabe / Heft:3
Seitenzahl:12
Erste Seite:831
Letzte Seite:842
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Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
HeBIS-PPN:439193397
Institute:Medizin / Medizin
DDC-Klassifikation:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 59 Tiere (Zoologie) / 590 Tiere (Zoologie)
6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Lizenz (Deutsch):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0

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