Species Detail - Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Distribution Atlas of Butterflies in Ireland 1979 (An Foras Forbartha)".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Vanessa atalanta
Red Admiral
N/A
N/A
vaata
(Linnaeus, 1758)
insect - butterfly
Species
582
298
106
01/01/1940
31/12/1984
1 January (recorded in 1976)
21 December (recorded in 2016)
National Biodiversity Data Centre, Distribution Atlas of Butterflies in Ireland 1979 (An Foras Forbartha), National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta), accessed 29 March 2024, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/94/Species/77379>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)