Nirvana Kirkaldy 1900
Creators: name: Meshram, Naresh M.
name: Rai, Stuti
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Nirvana

description: Key to species of Nirvana from India (modified from Viraktamath & Wesley 1988)
1 Vertex with median, white stripe and lateral,orange or lemon yellow submarginal stripe (Viraktamath& Wesley 1988: Figs. 225, 226)............................................................................... pallida Melicher
- Vertex with black line or lines or with orange, submarginal stripes traversing onto pronotum,scutellum and forewing...... 2
2 Vertex, pronotum, scutellum traversed by pair of orange stripes (Viraktamath & Wesley 1988: Fig. 256); male pygofer caudally produced into an acute, dorsally curved process (Viraktamath& Wesley 1988: Fig. 261); anal tube with two stout spines (Viraktamath & Wesley 1988: Fig. 262)................................................ pecularis Viraktamath & Wesley
- Vertex, pronotum, and scutellum traversed by black lines or stripes; male pygofer and anal tube unarmed (not known in pseudommatos).......................................................................................3
3 Vertex, pronotum, scutellum, and anal margin of forewing traversed by single or pair of, black stripes................... 4
- Vertex of head and pronotum traversed by three black stripes; scutellum by a median, black line; apex of vertex with blackish brown spot connected by the stripes.................................................... pseudommatos Kirkaldy
4 Vertex, pronotum and scutellum, with pair of black stripes, aedeagus with short spinelike processes on dorsal apodeme (Rao 1989: Figs. 17–18)........................................................................s hillongensis Rao
- Vertex, pronotum and scutellum, with single black stripe......................................................5
5 Median stripe with irregular margins (Viraktamath & Wesley 1988: Figs. 233, 234); spot on second apical cell of forewing small (Viraktamath & Wesley 1988: Fig. 243); dorsal apodeme of aedeagus simple (Viraktamath & Wesley 1988: Fig. 240).6
- Median stripe with an even margin (Viraktamath & Wesley 1988: Fig. 244); spot on second apical cell of forewing large (Fig. 248) extending to first apical cell; dorsal apodeme of aedeagus with a basal, short process (Fig. 254).................................................................................................. striata Viraktamath & Wesley
6 Aedeagus with two short subapical process (Figs. 41–42),pygofer with ventral process dorsally directed with acute apex (Figs. 38)................................................................................. subsuturalis sp. nov.
- Aedeagus without any process (Viraktamath & Wesley 1988: Fig. 240); pygofer without ventral process (Viraktamath & Wesley 1988: Fig. 237)....................................................................... suturalis Melicher
description: Published as part of Meshram, Naresh M. & Rai, Stuti, 2017, A new species of genus Nirvana (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Evacanthinae) with note on female genitalia from India, pp. 264-272 in Zootaxa 4303 (2) on page 265, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4303.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/840946