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Green-veined White

Pieris napi

559,301Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
123Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb1
Mar267
Apr33,051
May116,783
Jun49,925
Jul161,950
Aug154,677
Sep38,520
Oct227
Nov4
Dec3

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Dorset England25,018
2Somerset England21,848
3Cambridgeshire England21,268
4Norfolk England14,427
5Suffolk England12,389
6Cumbria England12,108
7North Yorkshire England9,960
8Devon England9,871
9Gloucestershire England9,497
10Oxfordshire England9,370
11Highland Scotland9,354
12Essex England9,091
13Surrey England9,020
14Worcestershire England8,543
15Kent England8,445
464,455 England52,493 Scotland19,691 Wales13,006 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 123 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
559,301
Peak month
July
Counties with records
123
Scientific name
Pieris napi
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
545,854
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Pieridae
Genus
Pieris
Name with authority
Pieris napi (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
65

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q683592 · GBIF 1920494