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Pieris Schrank 1801

Cabbage Whites

Andrew V. Z. Brower

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Pieris brassicae
Pieris brassicoides
Pieris krueperi
Pieris napi
Pieris rapae
Pieris angelika
Pieris marginalis
Pieris oleracea
Pieris virginiensis
Pieris bowdeni
Pieris bryoniae
Pieris canidia
Pieris deota
Pieris dulcinea
Pieris ergane
Pieris euorientis
Pieris mahometana
Pieris melete
Pieris narina
Pieris nesis
Pieris ochsenheimeri
Pieris persis
Pieris pseudorapae
Pieris tadjika
Pieris manni

Containing group: Pierina

Introduction

The cabbage whites are an almost cosmopolitan group. Pieris rapae is a pest of cole crops.

Other Names for Pieris Schrank 1801

Pieris Latreille 1804 preoccupied
Mancipium Hübner 1806 suppressed, ICZN Op. 97
Danaus Oken 1815 unavailable (ICZN Art. 80.7.2)
Ganoris Dalman 1816 currently viewed as a subjective junior synonym
Andropodum Hübner 1822 currently viewed as a subjective junior synonym
Tachyptera Berge 1842 currently viewed as a subjective junior synonym
Artogeia Verity 1947 described as a subgenus, currently viewed as a subjective junior synonym
Vernacular Names: Cabbage Whites

References

Ackery PR, Smith CR, and Vane-Wright RI eds. 1995. Carcasson's African butterflies. Canberra: CSIRO.

Lamas G ed. 2004. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 4A Hesperioidea - Papiionoidea. Gainesville: Scientific Publishers/Association of Tropical Lepidoptera.

Layberry RA, Hall PW, and LaFontaine JD. 1998. The butterflies of Canada. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.

Tuzov VK, Bogdanov PV, Devyatkin AL, Kaabak LV, Korolev VA, Murzin VS, Samodurov GD, and Tarasov EA. 1997. Guide to the butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). Pensoft, Sofia.

Title Illustrations

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Scientific Name	Pieris napi
Location	near Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland, UK
Specimen Condition	Live Specimen
Behavior	mating
Source	Green-veined Whites
Source Collection	Flickr
Image Use	This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License - Version 2.0.
Copyright	© 2005 Roger Butterfield

Scientific Name	Pieris canidia
Location	Taiwan
Specimen Condition	Live Specimen
Source	IMG_1772al1
Source Collection	Flickr
Image Use	This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License - Version 2.0.
Copyright	© 2006 leemt2

Scientific Name	Pieris brassicae
Location	near Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, England
Specimen Condition	Live Specimen
Source	White Butterfly
Source Collection	Flickr
Image Use	This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs License - Version 2.0.
Copyright	© 2005 Paul Stevenson

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Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA

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First online 04 November 2006
Content changed 06 May 2009

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Brower, Andrew V. Z. 2009. Pieris Schrank 1801. Cabbage Whites. Version 06 May 2009 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Pieris/76484/2009.05.06 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/