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A synoptic review of Gomphomastacinae (Orthoptera: Eumastacoidea) from the Qinghai-Tibet plateau with a description of new species
No full textQiu, Shaoting, Xu, Sheng-Quan, Huang, Huateng (2021): A synoptic review of Gomphomastacinae (Orthoptera: Eumastacoidea) from the Qinghai-Tibet plateau with a description of new species. Zootaxa 4903 (2): 296-300, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4903.2.
FIGURE.2 in A synoptic review of Gomphomastacinae (Orthoptera: Eumastacoidea) from the Qinghai-Tibet plateau with a description of new species
No full textFIGURE.2: Myrmeleomastax wideis sp. nov. A. Ƌ Body, dorsal view; B. ♀ Body, dorsal view; C. Ƌ Body, Lateral view; D. ♀ Body, Lateral view; E. Ƌ End of abdomen, dorsal view; F. ♀ End of abdomen, lateral view; G. Ƌ Phallic complex; H. Ƌ Epiphallus.Published as part of Qiu, Shaoting, Xu, Sheng-Quan & Huang, Huateng, 2021, A synoptic review of Gomphomastacinae (Orthoptera: Eumastacoidea) from the Qinghai-Tibet plateau with a description of new species, pp. 296-300 in Zootaxa 4903 (2) on page 299, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4903.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/456741
Shoveliteratura quadrata An, Jiang & Huang 2023, sp. nov.
No full textShoveliteratura quadrata An, Jiang & Huang, sp. nov. Fig. 1 Description. Male. Body small, thin. Fastigium verticis shovel-shaped, protruding forward, base slightly broad, tapering apically, apex rounded, dorsal surface concave ventrally, with a longitudinal sulcus. Compound eyes ovoid, protruding forward. Apical segment of maxillary palpus approximately equated in length with subapical segment, apex swollen and rounded. Pronotum slightly elongate backward, prozona with median carina indistinct, metazona with median carina distinct, anterior margin nearly straight, posterior margin rounded; lateral lobe longer than deep, humeral sinus absent. Thoracic auditory spiracle exposed, oval. Tegmen only reaching apex of postfemur, with apex rounded; hind wing shorter than tegmen. All femora without spines on ventral surfaces. Procoxa with 1 spine; protibia with 3 spines on each side of ventral surface; tibial tympana oval, open on both sides. Mesotibia with 2 spines on each side of ventral surface. Genicular lobe of postfemur with apex rounded; posttibia with 24–26 spines on both sides of dorsal surface, bearing a pair of apical spurs on dorsal and ventral surfaces separately. Posterior margin of male tenth abdominal tergite concave, with a pair of dentate processes. Epiproct triangular. Base of cercus robust, with a lateral ridge on outer margin, and a triangular process on ventral surface; middle area with a triangular process on dorsal surface, and a triangular inner process on ventral surface; apex rounded and slightly incurved. Genitalia with inner and outer layers; inner layer near arc; outer layer seeming a cuboid without top surface, with ventral surface hollow. Subgenital plate nearly oval, with posterior margin truncated. Styli slenderer, positioned on apex of subgenital plate bilaterally. Coloration. Body green. Antenna brown. Compound eyes brown. Apex of genicular lobe black. Female. General appearance is similar to that of male. Cercus greatly elongated and clavate, with proximal areas robust, apex acute. Subgenital plate transverse, base with shallow notch, posterior margin slightly concave. Ovipositor moderately upcurved, dorsal and ventral margins smooth, apex of ventral valvula with an indistinct hook. Material examined. Holotype: ♁, Jinzhongshan, Longlin, Guangxi, China, 19 August, 2022, coll. Meng An. Paratypes: 1♀, Jinzhongshan, Longlin, Guangxi, China, 18 August, 2022, coll. Meng An; 1♀, the other data as holotype; 1♀, Jinzhongshan, Longlin, Guangxi, China, 20 August, 2022, coll. Meng An. Measurements (mm). Body: ♁8.5, ♀ 9.0–9.8; pronotum: ♁4.9, ♀ 4.3–4.5; tegmen: ♁9.5, ♀ 10.5–10.9; postfemur: ♁9.0, ♀ 9.3–10.0; ovipositor: ♀ 6.3–6.5. Distribution. China (Guangxi). Etymology. The new species is named after the shape of male genitalia, Latin “quadrata” means quadrate. Discussion. The new species resembles Shoveliteratura triangula Shi, Bian & Chang, 2011, but differs in the length of wings and the shape of apex of male abdomen.Published as part of An, Meng, Jiang, Zhengjie & Huang, Shaoting, 2023, One new species of the genus Shoveliteratura Shi, Bian & Chang, 2011 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae) from Guangxi, China, pp. 299-300 in Zootaxa 5264 (2) on pages 299-300, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5264.2.10, http://zenodo.org/record/783631
Ahlbergia clarolinea Huang & Chen
No full textAhlbergia clarolinea Huang & Chen (Figs. 18–21, 63– 66, 71–72, 90–91, 104, 108) Ahlbergia clarolinea Huang & Chen, 2006: 317, figs. 4–6 for male and female genitalia, cpl. 12, figs. 1–3 for habitus. Material. CHINA: Yunnan province: 1 ♀ (CHH, holotype, dissected), Lijiang City, Yulongxueshan, 2800m, 29. IV. 2005, H. Huang leg..; 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀ (CHH, dissected), Lijiang, Yulongxueshan, 2600m, 26.IV. 2015, H. Huang leg.; 2 ♂♂ (CCAM, paratypes, dissected), Lijiang, Ludian, 2600–2900m, IV. 2006, A.-M. Chen leg.; 8 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀ (CHH; 2 ♂♂ & 2 ♀♀ dissected), Lijiang, Ludian, 2500–2800m, 13.V. 2014; 7 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀ (CHH; 2 ♂♂ & 2 ♀♀ dissected), Lijiang, Ludian, 2600–2700m, 28.IV. 2015 & 20.V. 2015, H. Huang & X.-D. Yang leg.; 1 ♂ (CZZH), Dali Bai Autonomous Region, Yunlong County, Tianchi, 20.V. 2014, Z.-H. Zheng leg.; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (CHSJ), Kunming, IV. 2014, S.-J. Hu leg.. Sichuan province: 1 ♀ (CHH, dissected), Liangshan Yi Autonomous Region, Muli County, Liziping, 2700m, 5.V. 2014, X.-D. Yang leg.. Remarks. The female holotype was collected from Yulongxueshan whilst the male paratypes were collected from Ludian, thus the association of male and female requires a confirmation from more material. In a recent expedition made by the first author, specimens of both sexes were collected from both localities. An examination of male and female genitalia proved the original association of male and female to be correct. Distribution. Yunnan (Lijiang, Kunming, Yunlong), Sichuan (Muli).Published as part of Huang, Hao & Zhu, Jian-Qing, 2016, Ahlbergia maoweiweii sp. n. from Shaanxi, China with revisional notes on similar species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), pp. 409-433 in Zootaxa 4114 (4) on page 431, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/27160
Yunte Huang, 35th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textYunte Huang is the author of Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History (2010), which won the Edgar Award and California Book Award and was also the finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. A poet and translator, he has published Transpacific Displacement (2003), Cribs (2005), Transpacific Imaginations (2007), and other books. He is currently a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara
When Top-Down Meets Bottom-Up: Local Adoption of Social Policy Reform in China
No full textAuthoritarian local leaders face two driving forces in social policy making: top-down pressures from the regime and bottom-up motivations derived from local conditions. Existing studies recognize the importance of both forces but remain unclear as to how they interact and which of them is more influential in driving local policy adoption. Focusing on two health insurance integration policies in China, we find that when the policy is political (i.e., entailing substantial class conflicts and bureaucratic friction), top-down pressure for compliance is a dominant driver for local adoption of social policy reform. When the policy is less political, bottom-up motivations based on local economic geography together with top-down pressure drive local adoption. We find support for this argument from an analysis of an original city-level dataset on social health insurance in China from 2004 to 2016. This study has implications for distributive politics, decentralization and government responsiveness in authoritarian countries.Peer reviewe
Does social insurance enrollment improve citizen assessment of local government performance? Evidence from China
No full textAlthough many studies claim that social policies are “carrots” that authoritarian leaders use to garner public support, the assumption that social benefits can boost public support of government has been rarely tested empirically, especially at the local levels. This article investigates the effects of social insurance enrollment on citizens' assessment of local government performance using data from the 2010 China Family Panel Study. We use propensity score matching to reduce selection bias and ordered probit regressions with fixed effects to examine these possible effects. We find that social insurance enrollment had a significant positive effect on rural citizens' assessment of government performance, but this effect did not exist for their urban and migrant peers. This discrepancy could be largely due to the groups' different expectations for government redistribution and their distinct experiences of China's social welfare reform. We conclude that the Chinese authoritarian government has achieved partial success in its attempt to use socialpolicies to maintain popular support.Peer reviewe
Impact of urban-rural health insurance integration on health care: evidence from rural China
No full textIn recent years, Chinese local governments have experimented with integrating the social health insurance system segmented between rural and urban areas to unify the administration, policy, and funds of various health insurance programs. In this study, we take advantage of the staggered implementation of the urban-rural health insurance integration across cities over time to examine the impacts of the integration on rural residents’ health care utilization and health outcomes. Based on an original city-year level policy dataset and the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) for the years 2011, 2013, and 2015, we find that the integration significantly increases the middle-aged and older rural residents’ inpatient care utilization and this positive effect is particularly salient in poor areas. Moreover, we find that the positive policy effect of integration is attributed to enhanced health insurance benefits, such as a higher reimbursement rate for inpatient care. However, the integration has limited impacts on the middle-aged and older rural residents’ health outcomes. This study reveals the partial success of urban-rural health insurance integration to reduce health care inequality in China.Please replace the old version using this updated one.Peer reviewe
Traditional Farming Ecological Culture and It's Changes of Terraced Fields of Hani Ethnic Nationality in the Ailao Mountain, Yunnan Province, China
No full text梯田耕作是哈尼族物质生产的核心内容. 哈尼族在长期的梯田农耕过程中积累了相应的耕作技术, 管理方式以及梯田生态文化. 但20 世纪下半叶, 随着社会变革和农村社会体制的变迁, 特别是市场经济的发展, 哈尼族的传统梯田文化发生了深刻的变化. 本文在记述哈尼梯田的历史渊源, 耕作技术, 耕作制度, 管理方式以及相应精神文化的基础上, 进一步考察了梯田文化的变迁及面临的挑战
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