Heteroptera or True Bugs comprise about 40,000 species in 86 families and are one of the largest groups of non-holometabolous insects. They show tremendous morphological and biological diversity, but – as other groups of non-holometabolous insect – have attracted the attention of a relatively small number of researchers. True Bugs are found in terrestrial, aquatic, and even marine habitats and their feeding preferences cover the entire range from phytophagous, to zoophagous, and hematophagous, involving monophagy, mixed feeding, and parasitism. Our lab at the University of California Riverside (UCR) focuses on systematic research in the two largest family-rank taxa within Heteroptera, the Reduviidae or assassin bugs and the Miridae or plant bugs.
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* News from the Bug Lab*
October 2009 Christiane together with fellow hemipterists Daniel Burckhardt (Basel), Ian Millar (Pretoria), and David Ouvrard (Paris) received a Citrus Reserach Board grant for systematic research on Asian Citrus Psyllid relatives in the genus Diaphorina.
September 2009 Graduate student Lily Berniker won the second place in the Oral Presentation competition at the Annual Entomology Department Student Seminar Day.
September 2009 Our NSF-funded PEET project on Reduviidae has started - the web site is currently under construction.
August 2009 Graduate student Wei Song Hang awarded a Collection Study Grant at the American Museum of Natural History.
August 2009 The bug and wasp labs conducted a joint field trip to East Texas.
July 2009Check out Dimitri's and Guanyang's collecting trip to Mexico .
June 2009 Undergraduate student Grace Radabaugh received a Dean's Fellowship that will allow her to work on the harpactorine genus Ulpius Stal during the summer.
June 2009 Graduate student Guanyang Zhang received a van den Bosch fellowship for his work on Zelus.
May 2009 Together with Luis Cervantes (INECOL) and Cristina Mayorga (UNAM), Christiane spent two weeks collecting bugs in Baja California Norte .
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