Pieris rapae: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Pieris
Species: Pieris rapae
Scientific Name: Pieris rapae

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Pieris rapae

Pieris rapae is a small-to-medium-sized butterfly species of the whites-and-yellows family Pieridae. It is known in Europe as the small white, in North America and the United Kingdom as the cabbage white or cabbage butterfly, on several continents as the small cabbage white, and in New Zealand as the white butterfly. The butterfly is recognizable by its white color with small black dots on its wings, and it can be distinguished from P. brassicae by the latter's larger size and black band at the tip of the forewings.

The caterpillar of this species, often referred to as the "imported cabbageworm", is a pest to crucifer crops such as cabbage, kale, bok choy and broccoli. Pieris rapae is widespread in Europe and Asia; it is believed to have originated in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Europe and to have spread across Eurasia thanks to the diversification of brassicaceous crops and the development of human trade routes. Over the past two centuries, it spread to North Africa (about 1800), North America (1860s), Hawaii (1897), New Zealand (1930), and Australia (1937), as a result of accidental introductions.

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Pieris rapae in languages:

Arabic: أبو دقيق الملفوف
Arabic: أبو دقيق الملفوف الصغير
Arabic: البيضاء الصغيرة
Bokmål: liten kålsommerfugl
Bulgarian: Рапична пеперуда
Catalan: Blanqueta de la col
Chinese: 菜粉蝶
Chinese: 紋白蝶
Chinese: 白粉蝶
Czech: bělásek řepový
Danish: Lille Kålsommerfugl
Dutch: Klein koolwitje
English: Cabbage White
English: Cabbage Butterfly
English: Small White
English: Small Cabbage White
English: White Butterfly
English: Pepe Ma
Estonian: Väike-kapsaliblikas
Finnish: Naurisperhonen
French: Piéride de la rave
German: Kleiner Kohlweißling
German: Rübenweißling
Hebrew: לבנין הצנון
Hungarian: Répalepke
Italian: Cavolaia minore
Italian: Rapaiola
Japanese: モンシロチョウ
Korean: 배추흰나비
Latvian: Rāceņu baltenis
Lithuanian: Ropinis baltukas
Modern Greek: Πιερίδα των γογγυλίων
Polish: Bielinek rzepnik
Portuguese: Borboleta-das-couves
Portuguese: Branca-das-couves
Portuguese: Lagarta-das-couves
Portuguese: Borboleta-pequena-da-couve
Russian: Белянка репная
Russian: Репница
Serbian: Лептир купусар
Slovak: mlynárik repový
Slovene: Repin belin
Swedish: Rovfjäril
Thai: ผีเสื้อหนอนกะหล่ำเล็ก
Turkish: Küçük Beyaz Melek
Ukrainian: Білан ріп'яний

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Pieris rapae: taxon details and analytics

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Pieris rapae

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Pieris rapae: taxon details and analytics

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Pieris rapae

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