The patterns of diversity and abundance of the carrion insect species in the different habitats of the Natural Park "Hoces del Río Riaza" (central Spain) were studied with the use of carrion-baited traps. Representativeness of the inventories was assessed with the calculation of randomized species richness curves and nonparametric estimators. Coleoptera families, Silphidae and Dermestidae, and ...

The following species are newly recorded from the Cook Islands: Anthrenus (Anthrenus) oceanicus Fauvel, 1903, Evorinea iota (Arrow, 1915), Orphinus (Orphinus) fulvipes (Guérin-Méneville, 1838), Dermestes (Dermestinus) carnivorus Fabricius, 1775.

The analyses of the insect species found on decomposing remains may provide useful information for the estimation of the minimum time elapsed since death and other parameters, such as causes and circumstances of death. The majority of research has focused on the early colonizing species, typically blowflies, while research concerning late colonizing insects is currently sparse. Dermestid beetle...

A review of insects collected from decomposing human remains in south-east Queensland yielded 32 species in three orders (Diptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera) and 11 families (Calliphoridae, Sarcophagidae, Muscidae, Phoridae, Sepsidae, Chironomidae, Dermestidae, Cleridae, Histeridae, Staphylinidae, Encyrtidae). There were 15 cases where remains were located indoors and five cases where remains wer...

Tuberphradonoma secunda sp. n. is described and illustrated from mid-Cretaceous (ca. 99 million years old) amber Kachin State, northern Myanmar. An annotated list of Dermistidae known Cretaceous Burmese also given.