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''Tisona'' is a
monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...
genus of butterflies in the family
Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species ha ...
that contains the species ''Tisona saladillensis'' found in
South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
."''Tisona'' Higgins, 1981"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''


Subspecies

*''T. s. clarior'' Higgins, 1981 (Bolivia) *''T. s. saladillensis'' (Argentina)


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7809616 Melitaeini Monotypic butterfly genera Taxa named by Robert P. Higgins Nymphalidae of South America