🐾 Small White

Pieris rapae · wildlife atlas entry

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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... Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Small White — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) Liu JimFood, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Liu JimFood · cc-by-nc

Record card

Scientific name	Pieris rapae
Rank	species
Community observations	274,561 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Animalia › phylum Arthropoda › class Insecta › order Lepidoptera › family Pieridae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

Small White photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Pastoria VIC 3444, Australia
(c) t-weichselbaum, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Small White photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Sedan SA 5353, Australia
(c) Heidi Clark, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Small White photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan
(c) kojp, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Small White photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-17 · Stop 13 Payneham Rd - South East side, Payneham SA 5070, Australia
(c) rachburch78, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Small White photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Vittoria WA 6230, Australia
(c) glenhough, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Small White photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Baroda Ave, Adelaide Airport, SA, AU
(c) flobob, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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