Species Detail - Common Blue Damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum) - 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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Enallagma cyathigerum
Common Blue Damselfly
NBNSYS0000005602 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
encya
(Charpentier, 1840)
Insect - dragonfly (Odonata)
Species
20
16
14
21/05/2010
11/06/2016
5 March (recorded in 1969)
1 November (recorded in 1998)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Ireland's BioBlitz, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Blue Damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum), accessed 19 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/189/Species/78143

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)