The relevance of Calliphoridae (Diptera) in Criminalistic Entomology

Abstract

The dipterous are generally one of the first insects in colonizing organic matter in decomposition and the most numerous in most of the successions heterotrophic. The species that integrate the family Calliphoridae are common in cadavers in decomposition, its list in these ecosystems has been used by the international scientific community for the determination of it dates it of death in human cadavers. In Cuba they are insufficient the studies on this group of insects. Essence of this study consists on upgrading the composition taxonómica and notions on the relationship of some califóridos species with the period’s tanatologycal. The lack of studies on their taxonomy, ecology and their narrow relationship with cadavers in decomposition under different ways of death and environmental conditions, it has prevented to use them in a more efficient way in the investigations entomo-criminalistic. The biological knowledge of this specific fauna, is a fundamental contribution for the correct application of the practices associated to the Entomology Criminalistic. An inventory of the species of Calliphoridae is shown reported for Cuba. Starting from those registered ones in the literature, others deposited in collections and some gathered in different animal substrate in decomposition, 4 subfamilias, 7 genus and 19 species were identified, all broadly distributed in Neotropic. The first time in the Island the taxonomy of the group, what constitutes a novel contribution for the Biological Sciences and Cuban Criminalistic.