Aubernon Cindy, Hédouin Valéry, Charabidzé Damien
Univ. Lille, CHU de Lille EA 7367 - UTML - unité de taphonomie médico-légale, 1, place de Verdun, 59045 Lille, France.
Med Sci (Paris). 2017 Aug-Sep;33(8-9):779-783. doi: 10.1051/medsci/20173308024. Epub 2017 Sep 18.
The forensic entomology is the use of insects to date the death. The forensic expert assessment is based on the development of necrophagous insects which are growing on the cadaver, to calculate their age and then estimate the Post-Mortem Interval. This development depends on a number of parameters like temperature, species or behavior. The French Forensic Taphonomy unit, the only expert team on the subject in France, works on the biology, physiology and ethology of the necrophagous insects. Their works are focused on thermoregulation behavior and thermal preferendum of maggot masses, aggregation phenomenon and social interaction or on food intake. These works are particularly of interest to understand the pre-social parameters and evolution strategies. More importantly, their aim is to better understand the development of necrophagous insects and, in fine, to improve the forensic expert assessment.
法医昆虫学是利用昆虫来推断死亡时间。法医专家的评估基于在尸体上生长的食尸性昆虫的发育情况，计算它们的年龄，进而估算死后间隔时间。这种发育取决于许多参数，如温度、物种或行为。法国法医埋藏学小组是法国唯一从事该领域研究的专家团队，致力于研究食尸性昆虫的生物学、生理学和行为学。他们的工作集中在蛆虫群体的体温调节行为和热偏好、聚集现象和社会互动或食物摄取方面。这些研究对于理解前社会参数和进化策略尤为重要。更重要的是，他们的目标是更好地理解食尸性昆虫的发育，最终改进法医专家的评估。
