Hodecek Jiri
University Center of Legal Medicine Lausanne - Geneva, Swiss Human Institute of Forensic Taphonomy, Chemin de La Vulliette 4, CH-1000, Lausanne 25, Switzerland.
Forensic Sci Int Synerg. 2020 Sep 28;2:282-286. doi: 10.1016/j.fsisyn.2020.09.003. eCollection 2020.
Until now, the term has only been used in medico-legal sciences. However, as a whole has a much wider scope and is just one of its branches. Based on the literature a wider definition of the term is presented. Today, we can distinguish two major branches of : 1) , which uses the insects as evidence of the presence of xenobiotics in decomposing tissue during an investigation and 2) , which uses the insects as bioindicators of environmental pollution in non-criminal circumstances. While is a relatively new discipline, research in began as far back as the 1920s. A review of the work in from the last 6 years is presented, covering several interesting new trends. This article aims to redefine entomotoxicology, which should increase awareness to bring more collaborations and multidisciplinary between related scientific fields.
到目前为止，该术语仅在法医学中使用。然而，作为一个整体，其范围要广泛得多，而法医学只是其中的一个分支。基于文献，本文给出了该术语更宽泛的定义。如今，我们可以区分法医学的两个主要分支：1）法医昆虫学，在调查过程中利用昆虫作为分解组织中存在外源性物质的证据；2）环境昆虫学，在非犯罪情况下利用昆虫作为环境污染的生物指标。虽然法医昆虫学是一门相对较新的学科，但对环境昆虫学的研究早在20世纪20年代就开始了。本文回顾了过去6年环境昆虫学的研究工作，涵盖了几个有趣的新趋势。本文旨在重新定义昆虫毒理学，这应该会提高人们的认识，从而在相关科学领域之间带来更多的合作和多学科研究。
