Forensic insects attracted to human cadavers in a vehicular environment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Insect fauna attracted to cadavers at the crime scene can be identified and used to estimate the postmortem interval (PMI). In the current study, insects associated with two human cadavers in a vehicular
environment were collected and analysed. The first cadaver was found five days’ post mortem in a garage.
The second cadaver was found in a car ten days after his death. The weather conditions were obtained
from the nearest weather station located to the scenes of the death. During the study, six adults, 32 larvae
and egg batches were collected from case 1 and identified as Chrysomya albiceps Wiedemann (Diptera:
Calliphoridae). From the second case, two larvae of Megaselia scalaris Loew (Diptera: Foridae) and seven
larvae of Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae) were identified. mPMI ranged from five to twelve days.
This information expands the knowledge on the insect fauna in the vehicular environment, which could
be used to assist estimation of the PMI
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