Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 2 Faculty of Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 3 Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 4 Institute of Pathology, Laboratory & Forensic Medicine (I-PPerForM), Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 5 Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE), Tropical Infectious Diseases Research and Education Centre (TIDREC), Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 6 Via Zezon, 10, 20124 Milano, Italy
Trop Biomed, 2023 Sep 01;40(3):370-374.
PMID: 37897172 DOI: 10.47665/tb.40.3.015

Abstract

Beetles (Coleoptera) are known to constitute forensic evidence in medico-legal investigations as their presence can be used to date human remains in almost all decomposition stages. Many forensic studies focus on the successional colonization pattern of flies (Diptera); however, beetles have not so far been studied extensively for this aspect. A beetle of the genus Afromorgus Scholtz, 1986, A. chinensis (Boheman, 1858) (Scarabaeoidea: Trogidae), was found beneath a late decaying rabbit carcass at Paya Indah Wetland, Dengkil, Malaysia, for the first time. Both genus and species are already known to occur in Malaysia from literature.

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