Kana semela danae (Linnavuori) Linnavuori, 2017

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 : 440

Kana semela danae (Linnavuori) , n. comb.

Remarks. Linnavuori (1979) illustrated the head, pronotum, forewing, male pygofer, style and aedeagus of the nominotypical subspecies of K. semela . He did not illustrate the connective but stated that it was "as in Afronirvana . " Species of Afronirvana have a median anterior lobe on the connective. However , the specimen of K. semela examined here, which otherwise matches Linnavuori's description and illustrations of this species, has the connective Y-shaped without any trace of a median anterior lobe and is, thus, indistinguishable from that of Oriental species of Kana . Viraktamath and Wesley (1988) noted that Yaoundea Linnavuori , known only from its African type species, is very similar to and possibly synonymous with Kana . We were unable to find characters distinguishing Yaoundea from Kana and therefore formally propose the synonymy of these two taxa (see above). Based on illustrations provided by Linnavuori (1979) and Viraktamath and Wesley (1988), the African species K. semela , is very similar to the Sri Lankan species K. ordinata Distant , differing mainly in having the aedeagal shaft swollen near its midlength in lateral view and in having the median apical process of the aedeagus longer.