Species Detail - Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Ireland's BioBlitz".

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).
Live Map

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Polyommatus icarus
Common Blue
NHMSYS0000516660 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
poica
(Rottemburg, 1775)
insect - butterfly
Species
64
19
14
21/05/2010
12/06/2016
2 January (recorded in 2021)
29 October (recorded in 2021)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Ireland's BioBlitz, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus), accessed 30 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/189/Species/77551>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)