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Six new species of the genus Balta Tepper (Blattaria, Pseudophyllodrominae) from China
No full textChe, Yanli, Chen, Li, Wang, Zongqing (2010): Six new species of the genus Balta Tepper (Blattaria, Pseudophyllodrominae) from China. Zootaxa 2609: 55-67, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19776
The Church of Fools: Virtual Ritual and Material Faith.
No full textIn their article “The Church of Fools: Virtual Ritual and Material Faith” Randy Kluver and Yanli Chen look to investigate the nature of the spiritual world created by the Church of Fools “from the other side” and explore the relevance of that world for the traditional conceptions of Christian spirituality. They explore the relevance of that world both to the traditional conceptions of Christian spirituality, as well as the way in which the attempt to bring traditional Christianity into cyberspace pays homage to the new world driven largely by the Internet. In an investigation into the “Church of Fools” experience, in which they examine the virtual reality portal provided as well as interviewing “Church of Fools” participants, Kluver and Chen focuse on the way in which the “Church of Fools” combines a material sense of spirituality with the Virtual World created online
Balta spinea Che and Chen, sp. nov.
No full textBalta spinea Che and Chen sp. nov. Figures 1–12 Description. Pronotum length×width 3 × 4.2 mm; tegmen 13.0 mm; overall length including tegmen 15.5 mm. Body yellowish brown. Vertex with black stripes, each with pale yellow spot in center (Figs. 1–2); in anterior view, vertex with two irregular blotches between eyes and two small spots on the blotches (Fig. 2). Pronotum brown with dark brown maculae and spots (Fig. 3). Venter pale yellow. Vertex with interocular space less than distance between antennal sockets (Fig. 1). Fourth and fifth maxillary palpomeres about same length, both distinctly shorter than the third. Pronotum with one irregular central macula and two spots posterolaterally (Fig. 3). Tegmen with discoidal veins strongly oblique. Hind wing with costal veins slightly clubbed or thickened; medial vein slightly curved at middle and without branches; cubital vein with 3 complete branches, median branch forked, triangular apical area reduced and small (Fig. 4). Front femur of Type C 2 (Fig. 5), tarsal claws strongly asymmetrical and unspecialized (Fig. 6). Male genitalia with supra-anal plate in ventral view short, with mediodistal region rounded convex, and middle of hind margin curved (Fig. 7); right and left paraprocts slightly asymmetrical, plate simple with apices rounded (Fig. 7). Subgenital plate in dorsal view nearly circular, lateral margins strongly arched, hind margin deeply and concavely excavated; styli small, spiny, arising on each side of excavation and directed laterad (Fig. 8). Left phallomere enlarged, sclerotized plates irregular (Fig. 9). Median phallomere long, sticklike, with blunt base and bifurcated near apex (Fig. 10), one branch tapering, the other blunt and densely covered with short setae; one associated median phallomere appendage present and arising on apex of median phallomere, which is smoothly arched with tapering base (Fig. 11). Hook with sclerotized portion very small, on right side, slender and with V-shaped incision (Fig. 12). Material examined. Holotype m?, China, Hainan, 10 April 1936, G. Ros. coll. Paratype: 1 m?, same data as holotype. Remarks. This species resembles Balta notulata (Stål, 1858), but differs from the latter in the following characteristics: cubital vein of hind wing with 3 complete branches and without incomplete branch (4 complete branches in B. notulata); vertex with two black interocular stripes and two spots (B. notulata without this pattern); hind margin of subgenital plate deeply, concavely excavated but without projecting medial lobe (with one projecting medial lobe in B. notulata). Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin word “ spineus,” which refers to the acuminate, spiny styli.Published as part of Che, Yanli, Chen, Li & Wang, Zongqing, 2010, Six new species of the genus Balta Tepper (Blattaria, Pseudophyllodrominae) from China, pp. 55-67 in Zootaxa 2609 on pages 56-57, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19776
FIGURES 57–67 in Six new species of the genus Balta Tepper (Blattaria, Pseudophyllodrominae) from China
No full textFIGURES 57–67. Balta jinlinorum Che and Wang sp. nov. 57. Head. 58. Pronotum. 59. Hind wing. 60. Front femur. 61. Tarsal claws and arolium. 62. Supraanal plate and paraprocts, ventral view. 63. Subgenital plate, dorsal view. 64. Left phallomere. 65. Median phallomere. 66. Appendage of median phallomere. 67. Right phallomere.Published as part of Che, Yanli, Chen, Li & Wang, Zongqing, 2010, Six new species of the genus Balta Tepper (Blattaria, Pseudophyllodrominae) from China, pp. 55-67 in Zootaxa 2609 on page 66, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19776
FIGURES 13–23 in Six new species of the genus Balta Tepper (Blattaria, Pseudophyllodrominae) from China
No full textFIGURES 13–23. Balta spinescens Che and Wang sp. nov. 13. Head. 14. Pronotum. 15. Hind wing. 16. Front femur. 17. Tarsal claws and arolium. 18. Supraanal plate and paraprocts, ventral view. 19. Subgenital plate, dorsal view. 20. Left phallomere. 21. Median phallomere. 22. Appendage of median phallomere. 23. Right phallomere.Published as part of Che, Yanli, Chen, Li & Wang, Zongqing, 2010, Six new species of the genus Balta Tepper (Blattaria, Pseudophyllodrominae) from China, pp. 55-67 in Zootaxa 2609 on page 59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19776
Balta curvirostris Che and Chen, sp. nov.
No full textBalta curvirostris Che and Chen sp. nov. Figures 46–56 Description. Pronotum length×width 3 × 4.2 mm; tegmen 14.5 mm; overall length including tegmen 17.2 mm. Body pale brown. Vertex brown, occiput region yellowish white; antenna dark brown. Pronotum with discoidal area and anterior margin brown, lateral and posterior margins hyaline (Fig. 47). Tegmina pale brown with costal areas paler. Venter and legs yellowish brown suffused with brown. Vertex with interocular space slightly less than distance between antennal sockets (Fig. 46). Fourth and fifth maxillary palpomeres about same length, both distinctly shorter than the third. Pronotum with one irregular macula (Fig. 47). Tegmen with discoidal veins strongly oblique. Hind wing with costal veins slightly clubbed or thickened; medial vein curved near medial part and without branches; cubital vein with 5 complete branches, two branches bifurcated at apex, triangular apical area reduced and small (Fig. 48). Front femur of Type C 2 (Fig. 49), tarsal claws strongly asymmetrical and unspecialized (Fig. 50). Male genitalia with supraanal plate in ventral view short, with mediodistal region rounded-convex (Fig. 51); right and left paraprocts slightly asymmetrical, plate simple with apices rounded and with numerous setae (Fig. 51). Subgenital plate in dorsal view nearly elliptic, lateral margins smoothly curved, hind margin deeply and concavely excavated with one large projecting medial lobe; styli small and fingerlike, with scattered short setae, located on lateral lobes and directed posteriorly (Fig. 52). Left phallomere enlarged, sclerotized plates irregular (Fig. 53). Median phallomere long, sticklike, slightly curved, with base blunt and apex bifurcated (Fig. 54); one associated median phallomere appendage present and below median phallomere, the upper half nearly S-shaped with apical part slender and acuminate, distal part robust, hind margin serrated, the other half a simple plate but left side irregular (Fig. 55). Hook-like phallomere with sclerotized portion very small, slender and with V-shaped incision (Fig. 56). Material examined. Holotype m?, China, Hainan, Jianfeng Mountain, 26 November 1981, Liang Songzhi coll. Paratypes: 1m?, same data as holotype but 7 July 1981, Guo Qiuming coll.; 1m?, same data as holotype but 28 July 1983, Hua Lizhong coll. Remarks. Balta curvirostris is easily differentiated from B. variegata (Hanitsch, 1933) by the following: 1) pronotum with discoidal area and anterior margin brown, lateral and posterior margins hyaline in B. curvirostris; pronotal disk shiny reddish brown, lateral margins yellowish, posterior margin dark brown in B. variegata; 2) supraanal plate in ventral view short, with mediodistal region rounded convex in B. curvirostris; supraanal plate transverse in B. variegata; 3) median phallomere long, sticklike, slightly curved with base blunt and apex bifurcated in B. curvirostris; median phallomere divided on distal half, one branch with setose membrane and long filament directed to left in B. variegata. Etymology. The specific name “ curvirostris ” is derived from Latin and refers to the distinctly curved, posteriorly directed styli.Published as part of Che, Yanli, Chen, Li & Wang, Zongqing, 2010, Six new species of the genus Balta Tepper (Blattaria, Pseudophyllodrominae) from China, pp. 55-67 in Zootaxa 2609 on pages 63-65, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19776
Balta barbellata Che and Chen, sp. nov.
No full textBalta barbellata Che and Chen sp. nov. Figures 24–34 Description. Pronotum length×width 3 × 4.5 mm; tegmen 13.5 mm; overall length including tegmen 15.5 mm. Body brown. Vertex and face dark brown. Pronotum brown with dark brown macula, broad lateral areas semihyaline (Fig. 25). Venter and legs brown suffused with dark brown. Vertex with interocular space slightly less than distance between antennal sockets (Fig. 24). Third and fourth maxillary palpomeres about same length, both distinctly longer than the fifth. Pronotum with two small spots on disk. Tegmen with discoidal veins longitudinal and slightly oblique. Hind wing with costal veins clubbed and thickened; medial vein simple, without branches; cubital vein with 5 complete branches and some branches bifurcated at apex, triangular apical area reduced and small (Fig. 26). Front femur of Type B 3 (Fig. 27), tarsal claws strongly asymmetrical and unspecialized (Fig. 28). Male genitalia with supra-anal plate in ventral view short and shallowly triangular, with mediodistal region rounded-convex, middle of hind margin curved (Fig. 29); right and left paraprocts nearly symmetrical, plate simple with apices rounded (Fig. 29). Subgenital plate in dorsal view nearly oval, lateral margins strongly convex, hind margin deeply and concavely excavated with one large, projecting, hyaline medial lobe; styli small, fingerlike, arising on each side of excavation and directed medially (Fig. 30). Left phallomere enlarged, sclerotized plates irregular (Fig. 31). Median phallomere long, sticklike and slightly curved with base blunt and apex acuminate (Fig. 32); one associated median phallomere appendage present and below median phallomere, which is bifurcated near middle and with base densely covered with short setae; the branch beneath arched and apex densely scattered with short setae, the other below bent downward in middle and apex also densely scattered with short setae (Fig. 33). Hook-like phallomere with sclerotized portion very small, slender and with V-shaped incision (Fig. 34). Material examined. Holotype m?, China, Hainan, Xinglong, 29 June 1983, Ke Minghui coll. Paratype: 1 m?, China, Hainan, Jianfeng Mountain, 18 November 1982, Huang Guifang coll. Remarks. Although this species has a type B 3 front femur, we place it in Balta on the basis of the apical triangle of hind wing, as well as wing venation, tarsal claws, and subgenital plate. This species is similar to B. hwangorum Bey-Bienko, 1958, the type of which was collected in Yunnan, China. Balta barbellata is distinguished from B. hwangorum by the following characteristics: 1) front femur type B 3 (type C 2 in B. hwangorum); 2) hind margin of subgenital plate with clear projection in which the styli are located, middle of hind margin with strongly V-shaped incision (hind margin without clear-cut projection, styli located in shallow concavities, middle of hind margin without incision in B. hwangorum). Etymology. The specific name “ barbellatus,” derived from Latin, refers to the presence of short setae on the base, apex and middle of the arched appendage of the median phallomere.Published as part of Che, Yanli, Chen, Li & Wang, Zongqing, 2010, Six new species of the genus Balta Tepper (Blattaria, Pseudophyllodrominae) from China, pp. 55-67 in Zootaxa 2609 on page 60, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19776
Chen Chen, 42nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textChen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which was long-listed for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. Bloodaxe Books published a UK edition in June. He is also the author of four chapbooks, most recently You MUST Use the Word Smoothie (Sundress Publications, 2019) and Gesundheit! (in collaboration with Sam Herschel Wein and forthcoming from Glass Poetry Press, fall 2019). His work appears in many publications, including Poem-a-Day, The Massachusetts Review, The Best American Poetry, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman and the National Endowment for the Arts. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD from Texas Tech University. He teaches at Brandeis University as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence and co-runs the journal, Underblong. He lives in Waltham, Massachusetts, with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug, Mr. Rupert Gile
Supporting data used in the paper: Xi Chen, 2020, The LMARS based shallow-water dynamical core on generic gnomonic cubed-sphere geometry
No full text# Simulation results of the unstaggered shallow water model
This repository contains the supporting data used in the paper: Xi Chen, 2020, The LMARS based shallow‐water dynamical core on generic gnomonic cubed‐sphere geometry, DOI: 10.1029/2020MS002280
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doc directory contains a README.md with information regarding naming conventions to label the model configurations for a shallow water test simulation. Additional information can also be found in README.md. Table 4 in the paper provides additional details.
The data directory contains the supporting data files (NetCDF format).Disclaimer: "This was prepared by Xi Chen under award NA18OAR4320123 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Artimpaza brevilineata Tian & Chen, 2012 in Tian, Chen & Li 2012
No full textArtimpaza brevilineata Tian & Chen, 2012 in Tian, Chen & Li, 2012: 43, figs. 1–9. (Figs. 28a, b) Type locality: China, Yunnan, Pu’er City, Yutang. Gender: female. Date collected: 2011.V.25 (2010.V.25, in the original description, is incorrect). Collector: Li-Chao TIAN & Gui-Qiang HUANG. Paratypes: 1 female, China, Yunnan, Lincang City, 1980.VI.1, Fen LIU leg. Remarks: In the original description, the type locality is “ Yunnan, Jinghong” while it is “ Yunnan, Yutang” according to the label. “Yutang” is actually in Pu’er, not Jinghong. The first author described the type locality by mistake. In the original description, the collector was only listed as Li-Chao TIAN, which was a mistake.Published as part of Li, Zhu & Chen, Li, 2020, Primary types of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Vesperidae and Disteniidae) of Southwest University (SWU), pp. 25-46 in Zootaxa 4718 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4718.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/360220
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