The cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) are expressed on insect cuticle and provide protection from desiccation abrasion. CHC profiles species-specific vary in each insect. Forensic entomologists have utilized varying expressions of CHCs to determine the age as well delimit insects. This review focuses role species identification aging field forensic entomology.

Abduction, or Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE), is a reasoning process that generates possible explanations from a set of ”surprising” observations. In this paper, a simulation-based model of abduction is introduced. This model is then implemented to develop a decision support system in the field of Forensic Entomology to help forensic scientists solve complex cases.

법곤충학(forensic entomology)은 법적인 문제와 연관된 곤 충학적 내용을 연구하는 학문이다. 법곤충학은 도시곤충학 (urban entomology), 저장식품곤충학(stored product entomology), 법의곤충학(medicolegal entomology, forensic medical entomology)의 세 분야로 나눌 수 있다. 도시곤충학 은 인간이 만든 건축물이나 인간이 살아가는 환경에 관계되는 곤충과 그 관련 생물들로 인한 법적인 문제를 다루는 학문이 고, 저장식품곤충학은 식품에 오염되거나 혼입된 곤충으로 인 해 일어나는 문제들을 다루며, 법의곤충학은 변사사건에 관련 된 곤충학적 증거를 활용하여 범죄수사에 도움을 주는 학문이 다. 법의곤충학이 주로 관여하는 업무는 1...

Close co-operation between forensic scientists, medico-legal doctors, and police forces made it possible to estimate not only the post-mortem interval but also the time since a child was neglected. On the skin surface under the diaper (anal-genital area), third instar larvae of the false stable fly Muscina stabulans FALLEN, and the lesser house fly Fannia canicularis L. were found. F. canicular...

Forensic entomology establishes the postmortem interval (PMI) by studying cadaveric fauna. The PMI today is still largely based on tables of insect succession on human cadavers compiled in the late 19th- or mid-20th centuries. In the last few years, however, the gradual warming of the climate has been changing faunal communities by favouring the presence of thermophilous species. To demonstrate...

The National Academy of Sciences ( 2009 ) published a review charting several key recommendations on strengthening the forensic sciences as an entity as part of an initiative put forth by the USA Congress to streamline and improve the quality of the forensic sciences and their impact on the judiciary process. Although the review was not totally inclusive, many of its sentiments have permeated i...

The fact that insects and other arthropods contribute to the decomposition of corpses and even may help to solve killings is known for years. In China (13th century) a killer was convicted with the help of flies. Artistic contributions, e.g. from the 15th and 16th century, show corpses with “worms”, i.e. maggots. At the end of the 18th and in the beginning of the 19th century forensic doctors p...