Species Detail - Purple Hairstreak (Neozephyrus quercus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Butterflies of Northern Ireland".

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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Neozephyrus quercus
Purple Hairstreak
NBNSYS0100004226 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
neque
(Linnaeus, 1758)
insect - butterfly
Species
44
8
7
31/07/2015
12/08/2021
12 January (recorded in 2019)
1 November (recorded in 2006)
Butterfly Conservation Northern Ireland Branch, Butterflies of Northern Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Purple Hairstreak (Neozephyrus quercus), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/312/Species/77180>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)