title: [Expert insect identification in cases of decomposed bodies].
abstract: We report two cases in which putrefied corpses were found in the state of massive myasis (colonisation of files); in one case, also beetles could be collected. Case 1:A human corpse was found four months postmortem exposed freely near a railway embankment (suicide, known heroin user). Masses of jumping cheese skipper fly larvae were found on the corpse and bred for identification subsequently. Furthermore, several beetles were found. Case 2: Three months after removal of a corpse found dead for one and a half month in fall/wintertime in a flat, green-blue blowflies and their larvae were seen constantly in the now completely empty, disinfected flat and in a flat being situated in the floor below. Larvae hid behind vertical floor ledges and wall-on-walls made of plaster and rested in diapause until temperature increased.
authors.affiliation: Aus dem Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universität zu Köln.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Benecke
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001517:Coleoptera; D004175:Diptera; D005260:Female; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007814:Larva; D008297:Male; D009198:Myiasis / Q000473:pathology*; D011180:Postmortem Changes; D013405:Suicide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*