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*
Dec 2011Christiane had a field trip in Peru.
Nov 2011The Heteroptera Lab attended and presented at the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America.
Sept 2011 Wei Song Hwang (PhD student) visited the Natural History Museum (London, UK) and the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris, France) for his dissertation research.
Aug 2011 Guanyang Zhang (PhD student) received a van den Bosch Scholarship ($1,500) to support his travel to the 30th Willi Hennig Society Meeting in Brazil.
Aug 2011 Wei Song Hwang and Guanyang Zhang (PhD students) attended and presented at the 30th Willi Hennig Society Meeting in Brazil. Both recieved a Marie Stopes Travel Award.
July 2011 Dimitri Forero received an Ernst Mayr travel award in animal systematics from the Museum of Comparative Zoology to travel to Brazil to examine type specimens of Apiomerus as part of his research.
July 2011 Christiane, with colleagues, conducted a field trip to Florida (and collected a lot of mosquito bites).
May 2011Graduate student Guanyang Zhang won a UCR Dissertation Research Grant. Congrats!
April 2011Graduate students Wei Song Hwang and Gunayang Zhang both won a Dissertation Year Program Scholarship. Congrats!
April 2011 Lily Berniker defended her Master's thesis. Congrats!
December 2010Graduate student Wei Song Hwangwon an Honorable Mention in a Graduate Student 10-Minute Paper Competition in 2010 ESA Meeting. Congrats! Wei Song.
November 2010 Dimitri Forero spoke as a keynote speaker at the National Zoology Congress of Colombia.
September 2010 Graduate Student Guanyang Zhang won the second place of poster presentation in the annual graduate student seminar day at the department of Entomology, UCR.
September 2010 Christiane, Lily and Guanyang conducted a field trip in French Guiana.
August 2010 The Heteropteran Systematics Lab participated in an OTS Speciality Course: Biodiversity of True Bugs (Heteroptera). Christiane and Dimitri served as instructors.
July 2010 The Heteropteran Systematics Lab attended and presented at the fourth meeting of the International Heteropterist's Society.
June 2010 Christiane and Wei Song conducted a field trip to Brunei on the Southeast Aisan tropical island, Borneo.
April 2010 Guanyang spent 10 weeks at the US National Museum of Natural History
April 2010 Wei Song visited the American Museum of Natural History for 2-week.
November 2009 Dimitri had the opportunity to team up with participants of the Oonopid PBI to do field work in Ecuador.
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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