Abd El-Aziz, F., El Shehaby, D. (2019). Effect of Arthropods on the Decomposition of Rat Carrions in an Aerated Environment in Spring Season in Assiut, Egypt. Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, B. Zoology, 11(1), 1-12. doi: 10.21608/eajbsz.2019.26929
Fatma El-Zahraa A. Abd El-Aziz; Doaa M. El Shehaby. "Effect of Arthropods on the Decomposition of Rat Carrions in an Aerated Environment in Spring Season in Assiut, Egypt". Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, B. Zoology, 11, 1, 2019, 1-12. doi: 10.21608/eajbsz.2019.26929
Abd El-Aziz, F., El Shehaby, D. (2019). 'Effect of Arthropods on the Decomposition of Rat Carrions in an Aerated Environment in Spring Season in Assiut, Egypt', Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, B. Zoology, 11(1), pp. 1-12. doi: 10.21608/eajbsz.2019.26929
Abd El-Aziz, F., El Shehaby, D. Effect of Arthropods on the Decomposition of Rat Carrions in an Aerated Environment in Spring Season in Assiut, Egypt. Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, B. Zoology, 2019; 11(1): 1-12. doi: 10.21608/eajbsz.2019.26929
Effect of Arthropods on the Decomposition of Rat Carrions in an Aerated Environment in Spring Season in Assiut, Egypt
1Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Egypt
2Department of Forensic Medicine & Clinical Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Egypt
Abstract
Arthropods represent one of the most important invertebrates to arrive and colonize carrion. Objective: The present investigation aimed to determine the arthropods fauna of forensic importance that colonizes carrion in an aerated environment during Spring season in Assiut, Egypt. Methods: Experimental models rates were killed and divided into Seven groups three rats in each group. Group 1;Control, Group 2 ; Drowning, Group 3;Electro cusion, Group 4 ;Stab of the heart, Group5; Heart-abdomen stab, Group 6;Cold and Group 7; Burn. Rats were used to determine succession in an aerated area during the spring of 2018 in Assiut governorate,Egypt. Results: The present results indicated that the arthropods of forensic importance, represented by the thirteen taxa belong to phylum Arthropoda and 10 families, Family: Calliphoridae represented by Chrysomya albiceps (5%), Family: Muscidae represented by Musca domestica (33%), Family: Sarcophagidae represented by Sarcophaga sp.(23%), Wohlfahrtia magnifica (22 %)and Parasarcophaga orgyrostama( 2%), Family: Dermestidae represented by Dermestes maculates(1 %) and Dermestes frischi(1 %), Family: Histeridae represented by Saprinus sp. (4 %), Family: Pteromalidae represented by Nasonia sp. (2 %), Family: Lycosidae represented by spider ( 3%), Family: Pyroglyphidae represented by Dermatophagoides sp. (1 %), Family: Cimicidae represented by Cimex lectularis (2 %) and Family: Porcellionidae represented by Porcellionides pruinosus (1 %).Conclusion: The present investigation submitted a basis for further studies dealing with arthropods colonization of carrions.
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