page_title: List of butterflies of Great Britain
section_title: Pieridae – whites and yellows
hierarchical_section_title: List of butterflies of Great Britain / Pieridae – whites and yellows
caption_attribution_description: English: Common Brimstone butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni), Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire
context_page_description: This is a list of butterflies of Great Britain, including extinct, naturalised species and those of dubious origin. The list comprises butterfly species listed in The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland by Emmet et al. and Britain's Butterflies by Tomlinson and Still.
  A study by NERC in 2004 found there has been a species decline of 71% of butterfly species between 1983 and 2003. Species listed in the 2007 UK Biodiversity Action Plan are indicated by a double-dagger symbol —two species so listed for research purposes only are also indicated with an asterisk. Range expansions according to the 2010 Atlas of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland.
  Butterfly Conservation lists 29 of Great Britain's 58 breeding butterfly species as "High UK treat priority", with 9 of those with conservation priority status "Action urgent across UK range".
context_section_description: Subfamily Dismorphiinae
  Wood white – Leptidea sinapis sinapis ‡
  – Devon and west Somerset; Surrey; Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire; and Worcestershire and Herefordshire
  Subfamily Coliadinae
  Dark clouded yellow – Colias croceus
  – immigrant, though overwintering in south-west; north to River Clyde in some years
  Common brimstone – Gonepteryx rhamni rhamni
  – throughout England (except north) and Wales (except south-west, central wet and far north-west); expanding range north and "infilling"
  Subfamily Pierinae
  Large white – Pieris brassicae
  – throughout, but thinly spread in north-west half of Scotland
  Small white – Pieris (Artogeia) rapae
  – throughout, except far north
  Green-veined white – Pieris (Artogeia) napi
  P. napi sabellicae – throughout (except for area occupied by subspecies thomsoni)
  P. napi thomsoni – east-central Scotland
  Orange tip – Anthocharis cardamines britannica
  – throughout, except far north and north-west; expanding range in Scotland and "infilling" in England and Wales
caption: Common brimstone
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