Species Detail - Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) - 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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Polyommatus icarus
Common Blue
N/A
N/A
poica
(Rottemburg, 1775)
insect - butterfly
Species
2885
98
22
22/06/1988
29/10/2021
2 January (recorded in 2021)
29 October (recorded in 2021)
Butterfly Conservation Northern Ireland Branch, Butterflies of Northern Ireland, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus), accessed 22 February 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/312/Species/77551>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)