Tisona

Tisona
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Nymphalinae
Tribe:	Melitaeini
Genus:	Tisona Higgins, 1981
Species:	T. saladillensis
Binomial name
Tisona saladillensis (Giacomelli, 1911)
Synonyms
Phyciodes saladillensis

Tisona is a monotypic genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae that contains the species Tisona saladillensis found in South America.[1]

Subspecies

• T. s. clarior Higgins, 1981 (Bolivia)
• T. s. saladillensis (Argentina)

References

1. "Tisona Higgins, 1981" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms