Pieris rapae Linnaeus, 1758

Della Rocca, Francesca, Stefanelli, Silvia, Cardarelli, Elisa, Bogliani, Giuseppe & Bracco, Francesco, 2021, Contribution to the knowledge of the arthropods community inhabiting the winter-flooded meadows (marcite) of northern Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 57889-57889 : 57889

Pieris rapae Linnaeus, 1758

Ecological interactions

Conservation status

Least Concern for Italian ( Balletto et al. 2015), Mediterranean ( Numa et al. 2016) and European assessment ( Van Swaay et al. 2010).

Distribution

European species ( Sterry and Mackay 2005). It can be found in mainland Italy, Sardinia and Sicily ( Villa et al. 2009).

Notes

Eurycora and migratory species very widespread in every environment from the plain to 2300m a.s.l., especially in prairies, cultivated areas and arid meadows. It has four generations in March-April, June, August and September-October ( Paolucci 2013, Villa et al. 2009).