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Pieris napi
Family: PieridaeGenus: Pierisnative in Germany
native in Germany
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233
Plants
visited
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375
Interactions
documented
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30
Host plants
known
About this species
A multivoltine white butterfly with oligophagous larvae and a pupal overwintering stage, recorded in Great Britain.
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Plant food
Yearly cycle
Adults are active from May to August, with multiple overlapping generations. The species passes the winter as a pupa.
Merkmale
Ernährung & Verhalten
Food
oligophagous
Generationen/Jahr
multivoltine
Overwintering
pupa
Scientific profile
Pieris napi is a butterfly of the white family (Pieridae) recorded in Great Britain. It is multivoltine, producing several generations each year, with adults on the wing from May to August. The caterpillars are oligophagous, feeding on a limited range of host plants. The species overwinters in the pupal stage. In Germany it is listed as not threatened (Red List category *).
Host plants
30 plants serve as food for the larvae
Cardamine hirsutaCakile maritimaBrassica oleraceaArmoracia rusticanaAlliaria petiolataTropaeolum majusCardamine amaraBarbarea vulgarisCardamine pratensisReseda luteaSinapis arvensisRorippa sterilisSisymbrium officinaleRaphanus raphanistrumSinapis albaRorippa islandicaTurritis glabraBrassica nigraGalinsoga quadriradiataBarbarea vernaHesperis matronalisCardamine amara subsp. amaraLycopus europaeusPrunus domestica subsp. domesticaLepidium virginicumNoccaea montanathlaspi arvenseArabis alpina subsp. alpinaNasturtium officinaleRaphanus sativus
Visited plants
203 plants are visited by this species
Heracleum sphondyliumHyacinthoides non-scriptaFilipendula ulmariaThymus praecoxLathyrus linifoliusBellis perennisSilene dioicaCampanula tracheliumImpatiens glanduliferaAjuga reptansAgrimonia eupatoria subsp. eupatoriaCornus sanguineaLamium purpureum var. incisumEpilobium parviflorumGeranium sanguineumHypochaeris radicataStachys officinalisLapsana communisDiplotaxis tenuifoliaMentha suaveolensCirsium palustreRanunculus linguaLophiolepis eriophoraLotus corniculatus subsp. hirsutusPrunella vulgarisViola arvensisViola tricolorBallota nigra subsp. nigraScabiosa columbaria subsp. pratensisViola rivinianaCentranthus ruberStellaria holosteaHelianthemum nummulariumRanunculus aquatilisSymphytum officinaleGeranium molle var. molleHelminthotheca echioidesCentaurea cyanustanacetum partheniumGeranium sylvaticumGeranium pratenseHypericum maculatumCarduus crispusLysimachia nemorumArctium lappaTrifolium repens subsp. repensGeranium phaeum subsp. phaeumPersicaria maculosaAllium schoenoprasumViola odorata
Sources & data origin
•Interaktionsdaten via GloBI (CC-BY 4.0)
•Cook et al. (2025) UK Butterfly & Moth Traits (DOI: 10.5285/dbc7cc17-cbbd-49dd-bab4-8e8855768d66)
•Neff et al. (2025) — Swiss Moth Traits, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14506883 (CC BY)
•GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — GBIF Secretariat (2024), DOI: 10.15468/39omei (CC BY 4.0)
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