Small Cabbage White: Chrysalis, dorsal

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

Butterflies & Moths (Lepidoptera)

Family:

White & Yellow Butterfly (Papilionoidea: Pieridae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Small Cabbage White (Pieris rapae)

This Photo:

🔍Chrysalis, dorsal🔎

Other name:

Cabbage White

Thank you Matt Endacott, Karen Weaving & Leon Crang for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
Males have one black spot per forewing, while females have 2. They both have one spot on each hindwing.
This is not obvious and it's easy to confuse the male's forewing spot and hindwing spot as 2 spots on one wing; looking like a female.
Larvae are green, with a pale yellow/green line along it's back. Yellow spotting around it's spiracles and 4 tiny ocelli (eyes) per side.

This species is classed as

If (Foreign Introduction)

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