The principal purpose of the present paper is to report about a new magnetospheric reconnection structure arising for the near-radial interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) orientations. This structure includes simultaneous existence of two modes of the solar wind-magnetosphere coupling (two- and three-dimensional reconnections). For the southward IMF two two-dimensional merging sites exist: one on the noon equatorial magnetopause and the other in the magnetotail. Reconnection takes place along merging line connecting them. As IMF rotates from southward toward a radial orientation, the merging site where lobe fields reconnect becomes three-dimensional and moves from the tail to the high-latitude dayside magnetosphere (northward for IMF Bx>0 and southward for IMF Bx0 and to the north for IMF Bx<0. In the vicinity of two-dimensional magnetic null on the magnetopause, reconnection occurs at merging line simultaneously with the three-dimensional reconnection at the second neutral point in the magnetosphere. For the strong northward IMF two three-dimensional merging sites exist in the cusp regions of the magnetosphere. Proposed construction is supported by calculations in the paraboloid magnetospheric model. ¿ 1998 American Geophysical Union