Pieris rapae
1 Cabbage White at Deakin, ACT
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| Pieris rapae | owenh | 6 Oct 2022 | |
| Catopsilia pomona | Ct1000 | 6 Oct 2022 |
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3 comments
6 Oct 2022
What's the basis for this? It was definitely yellow in person and there are no black dots like the cabbage whites usually have.
6 Oct 2022
Cabbage Whites have the black dots on upper wings and underside forewing. Your images are of the hind wing underside. Hind wing underside ground colour for the Cabbage White is described as 'yellow weakly suffused with black' (Michael F. Braby, Butterflies of Australia Vol 1 p 343 CSIRO Publishing 2000).
For underside image comparison between the two species refer:
Cabbage White: https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/934ecab5-798d-45b9-bade-16b3380d08a0#gallery
For Lemon Migrant: https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/b778fe7d-3677-4402-a955-a60ca435540c#gallery
For underside image comparison between the two species refer:
Cabbage White: https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/934ecab5-798d-45b9-bade-16b3380d08a0#gallery
For Lemon Migrant: https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/b778fe7d-3677-4402-a955-a60ca435540c#gallery
6 Oct 2022
Thank you so much for the links! From the photos in the suzi bond book and a cursory google image search my photos looked very similar to or essentially identical depending on which phototo the yellow migrant. But with digital copies and a broad range of images to draw on I can actually understand exactly what you are talking about and see the particular details that make this a cabbage white.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.092315-35.327224
- Maps Hughes Grassy Woodland Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek
- Places Deakin, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 6 Oct 2022 07:17 PM Recorded on
- Ct1000 Recorded by
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
Collections
- Ct1000 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Pieris rapae Whites & Yellows (Pieridae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Insects
Species information
- Pieris rapae Scientific name
- Cabbage White Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Exotic
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 2142.2m Recorded at altitude
- External link More information
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Synonyms
Artogeia rapae
Record quality
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