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.
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| Author: | Lena LutzORCiDGND, Kirstin A. Williams, Martin H. Villet, Mfon Ekanem, Krzysztof Szpila |
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| 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 |
| Parent Title (English): | International journal of legal medicine |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Place of publication: | Berlin ; Heidelberg |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2017 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2017/08/28 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2018/10/18 |
| Tag: | Africa; Blowflies; Calliphoridae; Forensic entomology; Speciesidentification |
| Volume: | 132 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Page Number: | 12 |
| First Page: | 831 |
| Last Page: | 842 |
| Note: | 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 |
| Institutes: | Medizin / Medizin |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 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 |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
