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1Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK. rhld2@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Forensic Science International
|August 4, 2009
Abstract:
The only insects found on a corpse of a murder victim buried at least 1m deep in a heavy clay soil in East of England proved to be Triphleba nudipalpis (Becker), a species not previously reported from a forensic case. Its larva is described.

