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Kumara Thevan1, R Henry L Henry Disney, Abu Hassan Ahmad
1School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia.
Forensic Science International
|December 1, 2009
Abstract:
In Penang, Malaysia, the Oriental and Afrotropical Megaselia curtineura (Brues) and the Oriental and Japanese Megaselia spiracularis Schmitz are reported from human corpses, these being the first reports of these species in such forensic cases.
