Pieris brassicae (Linnaeus, 1758)

Common names

🇬🇧 Large White
🇫🇷 Piéride du Chou, Grande Piéride du Chou, Papillon du Chou

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Subfamily: Pierinae
Tribe: Pierini
Subtribe: Pierina
Genus: Pieris
Species: Pieris brassicae

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Photographs

img/pieris-brassicae.webp — Pieris brassicae foraging on a flower of Galactites tomentosa

img/pieris-brassicae-2.webp — Pieris brassicae foraging on a flower of Succisa pratensis

img/pieris-brassicae-3.webp — Pieris brassicae foraging on a flower of Lythrum salicaria

Sources

van Swaay, C., Wynhoff, I., Verovnik, R., Wiemers, M., López Munguira, M., Maes, D., Sasic, M., Verstrael, T., Warren, M., & Settele, J. (2010). Pieris brassicae (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2010. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/174251/7037273