Species Detail - Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas) - 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).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Lycaena phlaeas
Small Copper
N/A
N/A
lyphl
(Linnaeus, 1761)
insect - butterfly
Species
622
348
110
01/01/1940
31/12/1984
16 January (recorded in 2019)
5 November (recorded in 2018)
National Biodiversity Data Centre, Distribution Atlas of Butterflies in Ireland 1979 (An Foras Forbartha), National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas), accessed 10 May 2024, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/94/Species/77512>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)