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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