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
Eboracum the area known as the Brigantes by the Romans became a Roman client state. When their leadership changed becoming more hostile to Rome, Roman General Quintus Petillius Cerialis led the Ninth Legion north from Lincoln across the Humber. Eboracum was founded in 71 AD when Cerialis and the Ninth Legion constructed a military fortress (castra) on flat ground above the River Ouse near its junction with the River Foss. In the same year Cerialis was appointed Governor of Britain. A legion at full strength at that time numbered some 5,500 men, and provided new trading opportunities for enterprising local people,