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Where does the Wood White live?

Leptidea sinapis has 183,423 records in 56 countries and territories, from 1783 to 2026. Most records come from France.

Wood White
Wood White — Photo: Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaArthropodaInsectaLepidopteraPieridaeLeptidea

When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
France 56,576
Finland 32,115
United Kingdom 30,789
Sweden 10,036
Spain 9,986
Netherlands 9,754
Switzerland 6,071
Serbia 5,367
Austria 3,831
Poland 3,246
Germany 3,125
Belgium 2,318
Luxembourg 1,919
Norway 1,401
Portugal 866
Hungary 708
Romania 648
Italy 621
Lithuania 541
Türkiye 497
Denmark 493
Estonia 450
Åland Islands 389
Russia 317
Greece 177
Andorra 159
Ukraine 156
Croatia 150
Ireland 110
Slovenia 98
Czechia 72
Bulgaria 62
Liechtenstein 57
Slovakia 50
North Macedonia 44
Kazakhstan 35
Kosovo 32
Iran 26
Belarus 21
Georgia 19

Showing the top 40 of 56 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.