Succession study on forensically important Coleoptera from India: a preliminary study and its forensic implications

Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences

Table 1 List of all beetle species and their number found during this study

Family	Species	No. of specimens (%)	Feeding habit^#
Staphylinidae	Philonthus longicornis (Stephens, 1832)	72 (6.1%)	P
	Creophilus maxillosus (Linnaeus, 1758)	76 (6.5%)	P
	Aleochara nigra (Kraatz, 1859)	40 (3.4%)	P
Silphidae	Necrophila (Calosilpha)ioptera (Kollar & Redtenbacher,1848)	130 (11.1%)	N
	Nicrophorus nepalensis (Hope, 1831)	2 (0.2%)	N
	Thanatophilus minutus (Kraatz, 1876)	95(8.1%)	N
	Necrodes littoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)	63 (5.4%)	N
	Necrophila (Calosilpha) cyaniventris (Motschulsky, 1870)	90 (7.7%)	N
Dermestidae	Dermestes maculatus De Geer, 1774	49 (4.2%)	N
Dermestidae	Dermestes undulatus Brahm, 1790	31 (2.7%)	N
Histeridae	Margarinotus multidens (Schmidt, 1889)	57 (4.9%)	P
	Pachylister bellicus* (Marseul,1884)	73 (6.2%)	P
	Saprinus sternifossa* G.Muller, 1937	69 (5.9%)	P
	Saprinus dussaulti Marseul, 1870	44 (3.8%)	P
	Saprinus quadriguttatus (Fabricius, 1798)	74 (6.3%)	P
	Saprinus optabilis Marseul, 1855	107 (9.1%)	P
	Merohister jekeli (Marseul,1857)Merohister jekeli (Marseul,1857)	33(2.8%)	P
Cleridae	Necrobia rufipes (De Geer, 1775)	22(1.9%)	N
Scarabaeidae	Onthophagus cervus (Fabricius,1801)	10 (0.9%)	C
Scarabaeidae	Onthophagus sp.	7 (0.6%)	O
Chrysomelidae	Periclitena vigorsi (Hope, 1831)	3 (0.3%)	O
Total specimens		1174
Total feeding categories			4