Table 3 Historical distribution of necrophagous fly species colonizing human corpses in India as per the published reports between 1985 and 2018
S.no. | Location | Time of collection | Indoor/outdoor | Gender and age of human corpse | Necrophagous fly species | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, India | May, 1985 to September, 1985 | Unknown | Unknown | Calliphora erythrocephala | Kashyap and Pillai 1989 |
2. | Calliphora erythrocephala | |||||
3. | Calliphora erythrocephala | |||||
4. | Calliphora erythrocephala | |||||
5. | Calliphora erythrocephala | |||||
6. | Calliphora erythrocephala | |||||
7. | Calliphora erythrocephala | |||||
8. | Calliphora erythrocephala | |||||
9. | Chrysomia rufifacies | |||||
10. | Chrysomia rufifacies | |||||
11. | Sarcophaga carnaria | |||||
12. | Sarcophaga carnaria | |||||
13. | Sarcophaga carnaria | |||||
14. | Sarcophaga carnaria | |||||
15. | Sarcophaga carnaria | |||||
16. | Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis | |||||
17. | Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India | 20 June 2003 | Outdoor (drowning) | Male, 10 years | Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius) | Singh et al. 2004 |
18. | Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India | 07 August 2003 | Outdoor | Male, 30 years | Sarcophaga spp | Singh et al. 2004 |
19. | Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, India | 07 July 2012 | Outdoor (nursery) | Male, 9 months | Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart) | Suri Babu et al. 2013 |
20. | Kakrala, Patiala, Punjab, India | 26 October 2014 | Outdoor (paddy field) | Female, 23 years | Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius), Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart) | Bala and Sharma 2016 |
21. | Ludhiana, Punjab, India | 30 March 2015 | Outdoor | Male, 40 years | Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius) | Sharma et al. 2018 |
| Â | Ludhiana | 05 April 2015 | Indoor (inside house) | Male, 45 years | Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius, 1794) | Sharma and Bala 2016 |
22. | Patiala, Punjab, India | 22 April 2015 | Indoor (inside house) | Male, 26 years | Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart) | Sharma et al. 2018 |
23. | Bhakra canal, Patiala, Punjab | 22 April 2015 | Outdoor (canal) | Female, 52 years | Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius) | Sharma et al. 2018 |
24. | Dholanwala bridge, Bhatthalan, Punjab | 06 July 2015 | Outdoor (drainage) | Male, 32 years | Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius), Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart), Phormia regina and Chrysomya albiceps | Sharma et al. 2018 |
25. | Pathanmajra, Punjab, India | 05 July 2015 | Outdoor (paddy field) | Male, 50 years | Chrysomya albiceps | Sharma et al. 2018 |
26. | Modakpal, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India | 15 June 2018 | Outdoor (drainage) | Male, 45 years | Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius), Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart) | Babu et al. 2022 |
|  | Total number of samples in each necrophagous fly species and their percentage of occurrence in bracket | #Total 32 necrophagous fly species life stages were reportedly collected from 26 human corpses associated with medico-legal cases from 5 Indian states between 1985 and 2018 | • Calliphora erythrocephala (8, 25%) • Chrysomya megacephala (7, 21.9%) • Chrysomya rufifacies (7, 21.9%) • Sarcophaga spp (7, 21.9%) • Chrysomya albiceps (2, 6.2%) • Phormia regina (1, 3.1%) | |||