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Prof. dr hab. Szymon Matuszewski

Laboratory of Forensic Entomology

A112
szymmat@amu.edu.pl
ORCID

Research Interests

> Entomological Methods for Estimating the Time of Death

> Biology of the Necrophagous Beetle Necrodes littoralis

> Thermogenesis in Necrophagous Insects

> Sociality of Necrophagous Insects

Technical staff

Bielewicz
mgr Anna Mądra-Bielewicz

madan@amu.edu.pl
Room: A111

PhD Students

Lis
mgr Natalia Lis

natalia.lis@amu.edu.pl
Room: B214/B215

Wydra
mgr Jędrzej Wydra

jedrzej.wydra@amu.edu.pl
Room: B214/B215

Grants

OPUS: 2021/41/B/NZ8/00474

„Thermogenesis, feeding matrix and parental care in carrion beetle Necrodes littoralis L. (Silphidae): spatio-temporal patterns, determinants, mechanisms and fitness effects of heat production in the matrix”

Selected publications

  1. When insect development meets insect succession: Advantages of combining different methods and insect taxa in estimating the post-mortem interval, S. Matuszewski, A. Mądra-Bielewicz, Forensic Sci. Int. Syn., 2025, 10, 100574. [LINK⇒]
  2. Guidelines for laboratory rearing of insect evidence: the importance of air humidity for breeding of Necrodes littoralis (L.) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), A. Mądra-Bielewicz, S. Matuszewski, Sci. Rep., 2025, 15, 8607. [LINK⇒]
  3. Field validation of post-mortem interval estimation based on insect development. Part 2: Pre-appearance interval, expert evidence selection and accuracy baseline data, S. Matuszewski, A. Mądra-Bielewicz, Forensic Sci. Int., 2025, 367, 112316. [LINK⇒]
  4. Forensically useful mid-term and short-term temperature reconstruction for quasi-indoor death scenes, J. Wydra, Ł. Smaga, S. Matuszewski, Sci. Just., 2025, 65, 43-51. [LINK⇒]
  5. Competition, cooperation, and parental effects in larval aggregations formed on carrion by communally breeding beetles Necrodes littoralis (Staphylinidae: Silphinae), N. Lis, A. Mądra‐Bielewicz, J. Wydra, S. Matuszewski, Insect Sci. 2024, 31, 1918-1929. [LINK⇒]
  6. Improving accuracy of age estimates for insect evidence—calibration of physiological age at emergence (k) using insect size but without “k versus size” model, J. Wydra, Ł. Smaga, S. Matuszewski, Forensic Sci. Res. 2024, 9, 1-6. [LINK⇒]
  7. Field validation of post-mortem interval estimation based on insect development. Part 1: Accuracy gains from the laboratory rearing of insect evidence, S. Matuszewski, A. Mądra-Bielewicz, Forensic Sci. Int., 2024, 354, 111902. [LINK⇒]
  8. Calibrating insect age at eclosion by size in a gregarious carrion beetle Thanatophilus sinuatus (Staphylinidae: Silphinae), N. Lis, W. Szyk, A. Mądra‐Bielewicz, S. Matuszewski, Med. Vet. Entomol., 2023, 37, 705-714. [LINK⇒]
  9. Temperature models of development for Necrodes littoralis L. (Coleoptera: Silphidae), a carrion beetle of forensic importance in the Palearctic region, S. Matuszewski, J. Gruszka, Sci. Rep., 2022, 12, 9689. [LINK⇒]
  10. Competition of insect decomposers over large vertebrate carrion: Necrodes beetles (Silphidae) vs. blow flies (Calliphoridae), S. Matuszewski, A. Mądra-Bielewicz, Curr. Zool., 2022, 68, 645-656. [LINK⇒]