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) | |
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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.