Pieris napi (Linnaeus, 1758)

Common names

🇬🇧 Green-veined White
🇫🇷 Piéride du Navet, Papillon blanc veiné de vert

Taxonomy

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

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

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

Photographs

img/pieris-napi-4.webp — Pieris napi foraging on a flower of Prunella vulgaris

img/pieris-napi.webp — Pieris napi foraging on a flower of Alliaria petiolata

img/pieris-napi-2.webp — Pieris napi sitting on a leaf of Hedera sp.

img/pieris-napi-3.webp — Pieris napi

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 napi (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2010. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/174293/7044639