Cuticular hydrocarbons as a tool for the identification of insect species: Puparial cases from Sarcophagidae

Acta Tropica

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 479-485

  Braga, Marina Vianna ^a   Pinto, Zeneida Teixeira ^a,b   de Carvalho Queiroz, Margareth Maria ^a   Matsumoto, Nana ^c   Blomquist, Gary James ^c  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL RURAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cuticular hydrocarbons; Diptera; Forensic entomology; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry; Insect identification; Sarcophagidae

Indexed keywords

3 METHYLHEPTACOSANE; 3 METHYLNONACOSANE; ALKANE; CUTICULAR HYDROCARBON; DIMETHYLALKANE; HENTRIACONTANE; HEPTACOSANE; HYDROCARBON; METHYLTETRACOSENE; MONOMETHYLALKANE; NONACOSANE; TRIACONTANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALKANE; ENTOMOLOGY; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROCARBON; INSECT; MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PECKIA CHRYSOSTOMA; PECKIA INTERMUTANS; PUPATION; SARCODEXIA LAMBENS; SARCOPHAGA RUFICORNIS; SARCOPHAGIDAE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; PATTONELLA; PECKIA; PECKIA CHRYSOSTOMA; SARCODEXIA; SARCOPHAGA RUFICORNIS; SARCOPHAGIDAE;

CUTICULAR HYDROCARBONS; DIPTERA; FORENSIC ENTOMOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; INSECT IDENTIFICATION; SARCOPHAGIDAE;

ANIMALS; ENTOMOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROCARBONS; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; SARCOPHAGIDAE;

EID: 84892549660     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.07.014     Document Type: Article

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