Cadavers are colonized by different species of animals, mainly insects such as flies and beetles (Kocarek, 2003). The succession of these insects and the time they live on the carcasses is used to determine in which circumstances death occurred and to estimate the postmortem interval (Catts and Goff, 1992). The Coleoptera order is the richest and most diverse of the Insecta class with 350,000 s...
