Leptosia lignea

Sulawesi wood white
male
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Leptosia
Species:
L. lignea
Binomial name
Leptosia lignea
(Vollenhoven, 1865)
Synonyms
  • Pontia lignea Vollenhoven, 1865
  • Leptosia nina lignea Winhard, 2000

Leptosia lignea, the Sulawesi wood white, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae, found on Sulawesi.

"M. de Rosenberg" is credited with finding the first specimens, which Samuel Constant Snellen van Vollenhoven then used to describe as a new species in 1865.

Larvae feed on Capparis species.