Leptosia lignea
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| Sulawesi wood white | |
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| male | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Leptosia |
| Species: | L. lignea |
| Binomial name | |
| Leptosia lignea (Vollenhoven, 1865)[1] | |
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Leptosia lignea, the Sulawesi wood white, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae, found on Sulawesi.[1]
"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.
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