| insects and associated arthropods analyzed during medicolegal death investigations in harris county, texas, usa: january 2013- april 2016. | the application of insect and arthropod information to medicolegal death investigations is one of the more exacting applications of entomology. historically limited to homicide investigations, the integration of full time forensic entomology services to the medical examiner's office in harris county has opened up the opportunity to apply entomology to a wide variety of manner of death classifications and types of scenes to make observations on a number of different geographical and species-level ... | 2017 | 28604832 |
| structural and genetic investigation of the egg and first-instar larva of an egg-laying population of blaesoxipha plinthopyga (diptera: sarcophagidae), a species of forensic importance. | flies in the family sarcophagidae incubate their eggs and are known to be ovoviviparous (i.e., ovolarviparous), but a laboratory-maintained colony of blaesoxipha plinthopyga (wiedemann) deposited clutches of viable eggs over 10 generations. a description of the egg and first-instar larva of this species is provided along with genetic data (genome size and cytochrome oxidase i sequences). the egg is similar to previously described eggs of other sarcophagidae but differs in the configuration of th ... | 2014 | 26309319 |
| first report of blaesoxipha plinthopyga (diptera: sarcophagidae) from a human corpse in the u.s.a. and a new state geographic record based on specimen genotype. | carrion flies in the taxonomic family sarcophagidae are often recovered from a human corpse. however, because such specimens are difficult to identify, the forensic literature on this taxon is quite limited compared with that of the commonly employed calliphoridae. faced with a sarcophagid larva that could not be identified microscopically from a death investigation in the state of idaho, we generated cytochrome oxidase one dna sequence data from the specimen. comparison to a reference data set ... | 2013 | 23899435 |