Publications

indoors forensic entomology: colonization of human remains in closed environments by specific species of sarcosaprophagous flies.	fly species that are commonly recovered on human corpses concealed in houses or other dwellings are often dependent on human created environments and might have special features in their biology that allow them to colonize indoor cadavers. in this study we describe nine typical cases involving forensically relevant flies on human remains found indoors in southern finland. eggs, larvae and puparia were reared to adult stage and determined to species. of the five species found the most common were ...	2010	20304573
insects colonising carcasses in open and forest habitats of central europe: search for indicators of corpse relocation.	several traces may reveal the post-mortem relocation of a corpse. insects are particularly useful for that purpose. the use of insects for inferring the transfer of a corpse rests on a premise that particular species colonise corpses in different habitats. however, only some insects reveal a strong preference for a given type of habitat. in order to find those insects which colonise corpses exclusively in open habitats, as opposed to forest habitats, a pig carrion study was made in rural open an ...	2013	23890643
species composition of forensically important blow flies (diptera: calliphoridae) and flesh flies (diptera: sarcophagidae) through space and time.	weekly monitoring of forensically important flight-active blow flies (diptera: calliphoridae) and flesh flies (diptera: sarcophagidae) was performed using small baited traps. sampling took place in two rural, one suburban and two urban habitats in and around frankfurt (main), germany, lasting two years and eight months. highest values for species richness and chao-shen entropy estimator for shannon's index in both families were found at the urban sites, peaking during summer. space-time interact ...	2014	24529768
flesh flies (diptera: sarcophagidae) colonising large carcasses in central europe.	sarcophagidae are an important element of carrion insect community. unfortunately, results on larval and adult sarcophagidae from forensic carrion studies are virtually absent mostly due to the taxonomic problems with species identification of females and larvae. the impact of this taxon on decomposition of large carrion has not been reliably evaluated. during several pig carcass studies in poland, large body of data on adult and larval sarcophagidae was collected. we determined (1) assemblages ...	2015	25876045
muscle attachment site (mas) patterns for species determination in five species of sarcophaga (diptera: sarcophagidae).	to further establish species determination using the muscle attachment site (mas) pattern method, third instar larvae of five forensically important species of sarcophaga meigen were investigated: sarcophaga argyrostoma (robineau-desvoidy), sarcophaga caerulescens zetterstedt, sarcophaga melanura meigen, sarcophaga albiceps meigen and sarcophaga similis meade. as in the previously investigated calliphoridae, patterns were found to be species specific. the main feature of the sarcophaga patterns ...	2016	26391172