Species Detail - Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) - 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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Polyommatus icarus
Common Blue
N/A
N/A
poica
(Rottemburg, 1775)
insect - butterfly
Species
837
405
114
01/01/1940
31/12/1984
2 January (recorded in 2021)
29 October (recorded in 2021)
National Biodiversity Data Centre, Distribution Atlas of Butterflies in Ireland 1979 (An Foras Forbartha), National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus), accessed 25 April 2024, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/94/Species/77551>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)