A checklist of arthropods associated with rat carrion in a montane locality of northern Venezuela
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Title: | A checklist of arthropods associated with rat carrion in a montane locality of northern Venezuela |
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Authors: | Velásquez Zambrano, Yelitza |
Research Group/s: | Bionomía, Sistemática e Investigación Aplicada de Insectos Dípteros e Himenópteros |
Center, Department or Service: | Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas. Laboratorio de Biología de Organismos | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales |
Keywords: | Forensic entomology | Venezuela | Diptera | Coleoptera |
Knowledge Area: | Zoología | Ecología |
Date Created: | 2007 |
Issue Date: | 2007 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Citation: | VELÁSQUEZ ZAMBRANO, Yelitza. "A checklist of arthropods associated with rat carrion in a montane locality of northern Venezuela". Forensic Science International, ISSN 0379-0738, Vol. 174 (2008), pp. 67-69 |
Series/Report no.: | IBAI-10 | IBAI-40002 |
Abstract: | This is the first report of arthropods associated with carrion in Venezuela, using laboratory bred rats (Rattus norvegicus). Rat carcasses were exposed to colonization by arthropods in neighboring montane savanna and cloud forest habitats in the state of Miranda. The taxonomic composition of the arthropods varied between both ecosystems. Scarabaeidae, Silphidae, Micropezidae, Phoridae, Vespidae and one species of ant, were collected only in the cloud forest. Dermestes maculatus, Chrysomya albiceps, Termitidae and most species of ants, were found only in the savanna. Fourteen species were considered to be of primary forensic importance: D. maculatus, Oxelytrum discicolle, Calliphora sp., Cochliomyia macellaria, Compsomyiops sp., C. albiceps, Phaenicia cuprina, P. sericata, P. eximia, Fannia sp., Puliciphora sp., Megaselia scalaris, Ravina sp. and Sarcophaga sp. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/2790 |
ISSN: | 0379-0738 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.02.020 |
Language: | eng |
Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Peer Review: | si |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.02.020 |
Appears in Collections: | INV - BIONOMIA - Artículos Científicos / Scientific Papers |
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