Distribution
The species has a natural range across Europe, Asia and North Africa. It spread across the Atlantic into Canada and the United States beginning somewhere around 1860. It spread to Hawaii by 1898, and Australia in 1929 around Melbourne and spreading across to Perth by 1943.
The nominate subspecies P. r. rapae is found in Europe while the Asian populations are placed in the subspecies P. r. crucivora. Other subspecies include atomaria, eumorpha, leucosoma, mauretanica, napi, novangliae, and orientalis.
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