Cabbage White (Pieris brassicae)
Image Copyright Michael Erik Maria Finder
Last Observed: July 2016 – Koh Chang
Last Observed By: Michael Erik Maria Finder
Pieris brassicae, the large white, also called cabbage butterfly, cabbage white, cabbage moth (erroneously), or in India the large cabbage white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is a close relative to the small white, Pieris rapae.
The large white is common throughout Europe, North Africa, Asia even through the Himalayas.
The Pieridae have the radial vein on the forewing with three or four branches and rarely with five branches. The forelegs are well developed in both sexes, unlike in the Nymphalidae, and the tarsal claws are bifid, unlike in the Papilionidae.[3]
Like the Papilionidae, the Pieridae also have their pupae held at an angle by a silk girdle, but running at the first abdominal segment, unlike the thoracic girdle seen in the Papilionidae.
