Pieris brassicae

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Lairge white
Male
Female
Scientific classification edit
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cless: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Faimily: Pieridae
Genus: Pieris
Species: P. brassicae
Binomial name
Pieris brassicae
Synonyms
  • Papilio brassicae Linnaeus, 1758

Pieris brassicae, the French butterflee, cried muckle white, cabbitch butterflee, cabbitch white, cabbitch moch (erroneously), or in Indie the muckle cabbitch white an aw, is a butterflee in the faimily Pieridae. It is a close relative o the smaw white, Pieris rapae.