Oiceoptoma noveboracense use the succession of insect fauna to provide confirmation of postmortem intervals. "Oiceoptoma noveboracense's" Latin specific name means "pertaining to New York" (Latin "Novum Eboracum" + "-ensis"), referring to the original source of the type specimen. Although less common, some literature will refer to the species as "Oiceoptoma noveboracensis". The genus "Oiceoptoma" was described by the English naturalist, William Elford Leach, in 1815. "Oiceoptoma noveboracense" larvae range from light brown to dark reddish in color. The larvae are typically flat and trilobite-like in appearance. They are capable of moving locations during their development. The adults average from long. The middle
Old English Latin alphabet Old English Latin alphabet The Old English Latin alphabet—though it had no standard orthography—generally consisted of 24 letters, and was used for writing Old English from the 9th to the 12th centuries. Of these letters, 20 were directly adopted from the Latin alphabet, two were modified Latin letters (Æ, Ð), and two developed from the runic alphabet (Ƿ, Þ). The letters K, Q and Z were not in the spelling of native English words. In the year 1011, a writer named Byrhtferð ordered the Old English alphabet for numerological purposes. He listed the 24 letters of the Latin alphabet (including