Leptosia lignea

Leptosia lignea, the Sulawesi wood white, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae, found on Sulawesi.^[1]

Sulawesi wood white
male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Leptosia
Species:	L. lignea
Binomial name
Leptosia lignea (Vollenhoven, 1865)[1]
Synonyms
Pontia lignea Vollenhoven, 1865 Leptosia nina lignea Winhard, 2000

"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.^[2]