- Animals
- ›Arthropods
- ›Hexapods
- ›Insects
- ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
- ›Butterflies and Moths
- ›Butterflies
- ›Whites, Yellows, and Sulphurs
- ›Whites
- ›Pierini
- ›Pierina
- ›Pieris
Small White
Pieris rapae
Pieris rapae, the small white, is a small- to medium-sized butterfly species of the whites-and-yellows family Pieridae. It is also known as the small cabbage white and in New Zealand, simply as white butterfly. The names "cabbage butterfly" and "cabbage white" can also refer to the large white. The butterfly can be distinguished by the white color with small black dots on its wings. They are further distinguished by the smaller size and lack of the...
Listen
Looking for field recordings…
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the old herbals & bestiaries
François Bouchard — Recueil de cent-trente-trois oiseaux des plus belles especes (1775)
François Bouchard · 1775 · p.151
Herbarius
1485 · p.150
Mark Catesby — Piscium, serpentum, insectorum (pt. 2) (1777)
Mark Catesby · 1777 · p.42
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.281
Herbarius
1485 · p.212
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.229
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.279
Garden of Health
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.69
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.196
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.261
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.670
Historia naturalis Brasiliae
Willem Piso / Georg Marcgraf · 1648 · p.159
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Pieris rapae in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 55626.