Nirvana pallida Melicher

Meshram, Naresh M. & Rai, Stuti, 2017, A new species of genus Nirvana (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Evacanthinae) with note on female genitalia from India, Zootaxa 4303 (2), pp. 264-272 : 267

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4303.2.6

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6009401

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C74B87DF-FF83-C336-C3B8-FC2CFD62F93F

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scientific name

Nirvana pallida Melicher
status

 

Nirvana pallida Melicher View in CoL

( Figs 1–2 View FIGURE 1 – 17 , 18–19 View FIGURE 18 – 27 , 28–29 View FIGURE 28 – 37 )

Nirvana pallida Melichar 1903b: 166 View in CoL

Quercinirvana bengalensis Ahmed &Mahmood 1970: 263. Nirvana pallida Melichar View in CoL : Viraktamth & wesley, 1988: 213

Female genitalia. Seventh sternite hind margin straight. Valvulae I ( Figs.18–19 View FIGURE 18 – 27 ), in lateral view, with apex acute; dorsal sculptured area extending from middle portion to apex of blade, formed mostly by scale-like processes arranged in oblique lines; ventral sculptured area restricted to apical portion of blade; ventral interlocking device located along basiventral margin of blade; in ventral view, basal third of blade triangular, narrowing gradually apically. Valvulae II ( Figs. 28–29 View FIGURE 28 – 37 ), in lateral view, moderately expanded beyond basal curvature; dorsal margin concave in the middle and convex apically on toothed areas, dorsal margin with 11 teeth, those located on basal portion and median portion elongate triangular with flat posterior (descending) area, those on apical portion short triangular denticles more prominent distributed on teeth and on apical portion of blade on anterior (ascending) area, except on apex (ventral dentate apical portion longer than dorsal one).

Materials examined. INDIA: Delhi: 3♂, IARI (28°36'36''N, 77°13'48''E, 250m), 13.vii.2011,at light, NPIB GoogleMaps ; Haryana: 6♀, 3♀, Panchkula (30°44'24''N, 76°48'0''E, 365m), 16.iii.2016, at light, Stuti GoogleMaps ; Himachal Pradesh: 1♀, 3♂, Nauni (30°51'45.04''N, 77°10'4.49'', 1300m), 9.vi.2014, at light, Shashank. P.R ; Meghalaya: 5♀, 16♂, Umiam (25°41'N, 91°55'E, 1031 m), 21.ix.2015, at light, N.M. Meshram GoogleMaps ; Arunachal Pradesh: 4♀, 2♂, Pasighat (28°4'12''N, 95°19'48''E, 153m), 16.xi.2014, at light, Rahul GoogleMaps ; Kerala: 2♀, 7♂, Nelliampathy (10.52°N, 76.68°E), 02.xii.2010, at light, N. M. Meshram GoogleMaps ; Karnataka: 1♀, 1♂, Kappanahalli: Shivamogga (14°17'26.01''N, 75°24'53.89''E, 661m), 6.ix.2015, at light, N.M.Meshram; Uttrakhand : 1♀, 1♂, Dehradun (30°19'4.8''N, 78°1'44.4''E, 435m), Rahul ( NPC). GoogleMaps

IARI

Indian Agricultural Research Institute

NPIB

Northwest Plateau Institute of Biology

NPC

National Pusa Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

SubFamily

Evacanthinae

Genus

Nirvana

Loc

Nirvana pallida Melicher

Meshram, Naresh M. & Rai, Stuti 2017
2017
Loc

Nirvana pallida

Melichar 1903: 166
1903
Loc

Nirvana pallida

Melichar 1903
1903
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