CORRIGENDUM

 

[Original article] Tembe D, Mukaratirwa S. Forensic entomology research and application in southern Africa: A scoping review. S Afr J Sci. 2020;116(5/6), Art. #6065, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2020/6065

 

 

Errors that appear in the Review Article by Tembe and Mukaratirwa are corrected here. Prof. Martin Villet (Director: Southern African Forensic Entomology Research Laboratory and Department of Zoology & Entomology, Rhodes University) is acknowledged for drawing the authors' attention to these errors.

Page 2, right column, section 'Search strategy and selection of the literature', paragraph 1, lines 13-17:

"Two exclusion criteria were also identified: (1) no focus on forensic entomology research, such as articles that dealt with identification or distribution of arthropods in southern African countries, but not undertaken in the context of forensic entomology; (2) no information points that contributed to answering the scoping question."

SHOULD BE REPLACED WITH:

"The exclusion criteria for this review were developed based on the three inclusion criteria which were peer-reviewed research articles from southern Africa explicitly reporting on forensic entomology research in a country or countries from southern Africa between 1932 and 2017 that included: (1) colonisation and succession pattern of arthropods during different stages of decomposition; (2) variation spectrum of carrion-feeding insects; and (3) diversity and/or abundance of arthropods colonising a carcass during different seasons. Any study that may have been referenced under forensic entomology, but did not report on one of the above-mentioned inclusion criteria, was not included. Furthermore, any study that had no information to contribute to answering the scoping questions was also excluded."

Page 4, Table 2, caption and columns 7 and 8 subheading AND page 6, left column, subheading for paragraph 2 AND page 6, right column, subheading:

Carrion-feeding SHOULD BE REPLACED WITH Carrion-associated

Page 4, Table 2, column 6, line 13:

"Histeridae" SHOULD BE DELETED

Page 4, Table 2, column 6, line 14:

"Fabricius" SHOULD BE: 'Thanatophilus (Chalcosilpha) micans (Fabricius)"

Page 4, Table 2, column 6, line 49:

"Dermestes maculatus" SHOULD BE DELETED

Page 5, Table 2, column 6, line 89:

"Muscidae" SHOULD BE REPLACED WITH: "Atherigona aberrans (Mallocch), A. naqvii (Steyskal), A. steeleae (Emden), Atherigona spp. indet."

Page 5, Table 2, columns 6 and 7, line 99:

"Lucilia sp. -" SHOULD BE: "Lucilia sp. 47"

Page 6, left column, paragraph 2, lines 6-8:

"In both studies, D. maculatus and Lucilia spp. were found on decomposing carcasses during the dry season only."

SHOULD BE REPLACED WITH:

"In both studies, Lucilia spp. were found on decomposing carcasses during the dry season only. Dermestes maculatus was found only during the dry season in the study of Ellison³⁸, and was not found in either season in the study of Braack³⁷."

Relevant species presented by Braack³⁷ that were omitted have been added to Table 2. These are: Chrysomia marginalis (Wd.), Chrysomia putoria (Wd.), Rhinia apicalis (Wd.), Rhyncomya forcipata, Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis (Fallen), S. hirtipes (Wd.), S. nodosa (Engel), Brachyponera sennaarensis (Mayr), Pheidole crassinoda (Em.), P. liengmei (For.), Axestotrigona togoensis (Cockerell).

Relevant results from Kelly et al.³⁶ that were omitted have been added to Table 2.

The corrected Table 2 appears below.

Page 6, Table 3, caption and column 5:

Results by Williams et al.³⁹ obtained from rats and chicken liver that were omitted have been added to Table 3.

The corrected Table 3 appears below.

Page 8, reference 39:

Three of the authors were omitted. The corrected reference is:

Williams KA, Wallman JF, Lessard BD, Kavazos CRJ, Mazungula DN, Villet MH. Nocturnal oviposition behavior of blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in the southern hemisphere (South Africa and Australia) and its forensic implications. Forensic Sci Med Pathol. 2017;13(2):123-134. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-017-9861-x