| a preliminary analysis of insects of medico-legal importance in curitiba, state of paraná. | a survey of the carrion fauna was made at two sites in curitiba, state of paraná, with the objective of describing the insects associated with carrion and setting up a preliminary data-base for medico-legal purposes in south brazil. vertebrate exclusion experiments were carried out in each season between 1994 and 1995 with a 250 g laboratory-bred rat (rattus norvegicus). five stages of decomposition were identified: fresh, bloated, decaying, dry and adipocere-like. some species showed seasonal a ... | 1997 | 9332590 |
| [the synanthropy of the calliphorids (insecta, diptera) of curitiba, paraná, brazil]. | the calliphorids synantropics were studied in three different environments--urban, rural and forest area--in metropolitan region of curitiba, paraná, brazil during october and december of 1996 to estimate the abundance, preferences of the adults to baits (fresh fish, bird liver and human faeces) and the synanthropic index for the most abundant species. a total of 3399 calliphorids of 13 different species were sampled: phaenicia eximia (wiedemann, 1819), phaenicia cuprina (wiedemann, 1818), phaen ... | 1998 | 9697653 |