Occurrence of Microcerella halli (Engel) (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) in snake carrion in southeastern Brazil;Ocorrência de Microcerella halli (Engel) (Diptera, Sarcophagidae) em uma Carcaça de Cobra no Sudeste Brasileiro

Revista Brasileira de Entomologia

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 318-320

  Moretti, Thiago de C ^a   Allegretti, Silmara M ^b   Mello Patiu, Cátia A ^c   Tognolo, Alexandre M ^b   Ribeiro, Odair B ^b   Solis, Daniel R ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Flesh flies; Fly colonization; Forensic entomology; Reptile carcass

Indexed keywords

BOTHROPS ALTERNATUS; CROTALINAE; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; MICROCERELLA; REPTILIA; SARCOPHAGIDAE; SERPENTES; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 70350405112     PISSN: 00855626     EISSN: 18069665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0085-56262009000200018     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Barrio, A. & M. E. Miranda. 1966. Las diferentes poblaciones de Bothrops alternata Duméril & Bibron (Ophidia, Crotalidae) de la Argentina, consideradas desde el punto de vista morfológico y antigénico. Memórias do Instituto Butantan 33: 887-892.
2. Blackith, R. E. & G. R. Blackith. 1988. Sarcophagini from northern Sulawesi (Indonesia), including four new species (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). Japanese Journal of Sanitary Zoology 39: 301-311.
3. Blackith, R. E. & G. R. Blackith. 1990. Insect infestation of small corpses. Journal of Natural History 24: 699-709.
4. Blake, D. H. 1955. Note on the rearing of Anolisimyia blakeae, a sarcophagid fly from the American chameleon, Anolis carolinensis Voight (Diptera, Sarcophagidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 57: 187-188.
5. Campbell, J. A. & W. W. Lamar. 1989. The venomous reptiles of Latin America. Cornell University Press, New York, USA.
6. Cornaby, B. W. 1974. Carrion Reduction by Animals in Contrasting Tropical Habitats. Biotropica 6: 51-63.
7. Frye, F. L. 1991. Biomedical and surgical aspects of captive reptile husbandry. Krieger Publishing Co., Florida, USA.
8. Garrigues, R. M. 1964. A Cuterebra (Diptera: Cuterebridae) infestation in the Grand Canyon Rattlesnake, Crotalus viridis abyssus, with a list of those recorded from other hosts. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 67: 689-692.
9. Irschick, D. J.; G. Gentry; A. Herrel & B. Vanhooydonck. 2006. Effects of sarcophagid fly infestations on green anole lizards (Anolis carolinensis): an analysis across seasons and age/sex classes. Journal of Herpetology 40: 107-112.
10. Kneidel, K. A. 1984. Influence of carcass taxon and size on species composition of carrion-breeding Diptera. American Midland Naturalist 111: 57-63.
11. Lopes, H. S. 1973. Two new genera of Neotropical Sarcophagidae (Diptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 33: 193-199.
12. Lopes, H. S. 1982. The genera of Microcerellini (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 42: 359-369.
13. Mariluis, J. C. 2006. Description of a new species of Microcerella (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from Argentinean Patagonia. Zootaxa 1124: 47-53.
14. Mavárez-Cardozo, M. G.; A. I. Espina de Fereira; F. A. Barrios-Ferrer & J. L. Fereira-Paz. 2005. La Entomología Forense y el Neotrópico. Cuadernos de Medicina Forense 11: 23-33.
15. Moretti, T. C.; O. B. Ribeiro; P. J. Thyssen & D. R. Solis. 2008. Insects on decomposing carcasses of small rodents in a secondary forest in Southeastern Brazil. European Journal of Entomology 105: 691-696.
16. Moura, M. O. 2004. Variação espacial como mecanismo promotor da coexistência em comunidades de insetos necrófagos.Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 21: 409-419.
17. Moura, M. O.; C. J. B. de Carvalho & E. L. A. Monteiro-Filho. 2005. Estrutura de comunidades necrófagas: efeito da partilha de recursos na diversidade. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 22: 1134-1140.
18. Pape, T. 1996. A catalogue of the Sarcophagidae of the World (Insecta: Diptera). Memoirs of Entomology International 8: 1-558.
19. Schoenly, K.; N. H. Haskell; D. K. Mills; C. Bieme-Ndi; K. Larsen & Y. Lee. 2006. Recreating death's acre in the school yard: using pig carcasses as model corpses to teach concepts of forensic entomology and ecological succession. American Biology Teacher 68: 402-410.
20. Silva, R. J.; A. P. Prado; R. R. Rodrigues; C. A. M. Lopes & W. A. C. Godoy. 1999. Megaselia scalaris (Diptera: Phoridae) causing myiasis in Crotalus durissus terrificus (Serpentes: Viperidae) in Brazil. Journal of Medical Entomology 36: 630.
21. Smith, D. D.; P. T. Schell.; R. Powel & J. S. Parmerlee.1994. Pharyngeal myiasis by Sarcophagi (sic) larvae (Diptera) in Ameiva chrysolaema (Sauria: Teiidae) from the Dominican Republic. Caribbean Journal of Science 30: 148-149.