Arthropod Succession on Exposed Rabbit Carrion in Alexandria, Egypt

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 566-580

  Tantawi, Tarek I ^a   El Kady, Essam M ^a   Greenberg, Bernard ^b   El Ghaffar, Hedayat A ^a  

^a Alexandria University Faculty Of Science   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropod succession; Calliphoridae; Carrion ecology; Egypt; Medicolegal entomology; Sarcophagidae

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; CALLIPHORIDAE; CHRYSOMYA ALBICEPS; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; FANNIIDAE; LUCILIA SERICATA; MUSCIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PHORIDAE; PSYCHODIDAE; SARCOPHAGIDAE; SCATOPSIDAE; SCIARIDAE; SERICATA; SPHAEROCERIDAE;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EGYPT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; EGYPT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; RABBITS;

EID: 0030186850     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmedent/33.4.566     Document Type: Article

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