Afronirvana

Wang, Yang, Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zhang, Yalin, 2017, Review of two genera of Nirvanini leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Evacanthinae) from Africa, Zootaxa 4231 (3), pp. 431-441 : 432

Key to species of Afronirvana and Afrokana (males)

1. Face with median depression, crown convex and without transverse carina............................ Afronirvana ...2

-. Face without median depression, crown flat or concave with transverse carina........................... Afrokana ... 4

2. Dorsum with median longitudinal black stripe serrate.................................. A. africana (Heller) , n. comb.

-. Dorsum with median longitudinal black stripe linear, entire....................................................3

3. Black stripe on crown about 1/3 width of head, aedeagal shaft with two pairs of slender preapical lateral processes............................................................................................ A. leptoclada , sp. nov.

-. Black stripe on crown less than 1/5 width of head, aedeagal shaft with only one pair of relatively broad lateral processes........................................................................................... A. abrupta Evans

4. Forewing with transverse black band from claval sulcus to costal margin, aedeagus with lateral processes about 1/5 length of shaft, pygofer ventral process apex truncate............................................. A. transmaculata , sp. nov.

-. Forewing with triangular marking, aedeagus with lateral processes more than half length of shaft in, pygofer ventral process apex acute............................................................................... A. knorri Heller