Lutz Lena, Williams Kirstin A, Villet Martin H, Ekanem Mfon, Szpila Krzysztof
Institute of Forensic Medicine, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Kennedyallee 104, D-60596, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Entomology Department, Durban Natural Science Museum, Durban, South Africa.
Int J Legal Med. 2018 May;132(3):831-842. doi: 10.1007/s00414-017-1654-y. Epub 2017 Aug 28.
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.
食尸性丽蝇可为法医昆虫学家提供极佳的证据来源，并且也与公共卫生、医学及动物健康方面的问题相关。然而，获取有关这些丽蝇的有用信息受到正确鉴定丽蝇的需求的限制，而可靠且易于获取的鉴定工具的匮乏是大多数非洲国家法医昆虫学发展的严重障碍。为满足这一需求，利用高质量的昆虫学材料和现代聚焦堆叠显微摄影技术，编制了一份针对非洲所有法医相关丽蝇成虫的高质量检索表。这个新的检索表可供在丽蝇分类学方面缺乏经验的调查人员轻松使用，并通过一个极易访问的在线平台提供。文中还讨论了先前检索表中使用的有问题的诊断特征。
