Pieris rapae (Linnaeus, 1758)

Common names

🇬🇧 Small White
🇫🇷 Piéride de la Rave, Petit Blanc du Chou, Petite Piéride du Chou

Taxonomy

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

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

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

Photographs

img/pieris-rapae.webp — Pieris rapae foraging on a flower of Oenanthe pimpinelloides

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 rapae (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2010. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/174353/7056010