title: First records of two species of Oriental scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from forensic cases.
abstract: In Penang, Malaysia, the Oriental and Afrotropical Megaselia curtineura (Brues) and the Oriental and Japanese Megaselia spiracularis Schmitz are reported from human corpses, these being the first reports of these species in such forensic cases.
authors: School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia.
authors: Kumara
authors: K
authors: Thevan
authors: R Henry L Henry
authors: RH
authors: Disney
authors: Abu Hassan
authors: AH
authors: Ahmad
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D004175:Diptera; D004772:Entomology; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D006801:Humans; D007814:Larva; D008297:Male; D011180:Postmortem Changes