The systematic study of the 40,000 species Heteroptera (true bugs) is the empirical focus of Dr. Randall Schuh's work. His program of field and revisionary work on the family Miridae (including plant bugs) has encompassed North America, South America, South Africa, and Australia. A five-year Planetary Biodiversity Inventory award from the NSF is funding description and integration of the Australian and South African faunas into a world classification, with the concomitant training of postdocs and PhD students. In cooperation with Ward Wheeler of the American Museum of Natural History, Dr. Schuh has sequenced 3500 base pairs of DNA for 450 true bug species representing 85 percent of known families.