title: Occurrence of oriental flies associated with indoor and outdoor human remains in the tropical climate of north Malaysia.
abstract: Flies attracted to human remains during death investigations were surveyed in north Peninsular Malaysia. Six families, eight genera, and 16 species were identified from human remains, with the greatest fly diversity occurring on remains recovered indoors. The total relative frequency of species was led by Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius, 1794) (46%), followed by Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart, 1842) (22%), Sarcophaga (Liopygia) ruficornis (Fabricius, 1974) (5%), Sarcophaga spp. (4%), Synthesiomyia nudiseta Wulp, 1883 (6%), Megaselia spp. (3%), Megaselia scalaris (Loew, 1866), (2%), Megaselia spiracularis Schmitz, 1938 (2%), and Chrysomya villeneuvi Patton, 1922 (2%). Hemipyrellia tagaliana (Bigot, 1877), Desmometopa sp., Megaselia curtineura (Brues, 1909), Hemipyrellia ligurriens Wiedemann 1830, Ophyra sp., Sarcophaga princeps Wiedemann 1830, Piophila casei (Linnaeus, 1758), and unidentified pupae each represented 1%, respectively.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800, Penang, Malaysia.
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Kumara
authors.forename: R H L
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Disney
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abu Hassan
authors.forename: Micah
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Flores
authors.forename: Tan Siew
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Hwa
authors.forename: Zulqarnain
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Mohamed
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: CheSalmah
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bhupinder
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004175:Diptera / Q000145:classification*; D004772:Entomology; D006801:Humans; D008296:Malaysia; D014329:Tropical Climate