#2459 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Southern Small White
🇳🇱 Scheefbloemwitje ·Pieris mannii
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what is it?
Pieris mannii ( southern small white ) is a butterfly in the family Pieridae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 373 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,283 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by August Franz Joseph Karl Mayer in 1851 (175 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Southern Small White
- Nederlands
- Scheefbloemwitje
- scientific name
- Pieris mannii
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Pieridae
- sightings in NL
- 373
- sightings in Europe
- 3,616
- sightings worldwide
- 5,283
- GBIF records in NL
- 21,940
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1851 by August Franz Joseph Karl Mayer
relatives· Pieridae
#2390 📷 10Green-veined White
🇳🇱 Klein geaderd witje
Pieris napi
👀 2.2k in NL
#2393 📷 9Small White
🇳🇱 Klein koolwitje
Pieris rapae
👀 1.9k in NL
#2398 📷 10Common Brimstone
🇳🇱 Citroenvlinder
Gonepteryx rhamni
👀 1.5k in NL
#2405 📷 10Large White
🇳🇱 Groot koolwitje
Pieris brassicae
👀 1k in NL
#2425 📷 8orange-tip
🇳🇱 Oranjetipje
Anthocharis cardamines
👀 595 in NL
#2540 📷 10Clouded Yellow
🇳🇱 Oranje luzernevlinder
Colias crocea
👀 168 in NL
#2768 📷 10Pale Clouded Yellow
🇳🇱 Gele luzernevlinder
Colias hyale
👀 50 in NL
#2870 📷 10Wood White
🇳🇱 Boswitje
Leptidea sinapis
👀 31 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 336700, Wikidata Q1313966, GBIF 1920491, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.