Species Detail - Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Irish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme".

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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Lycaena phlaeas
Small Copper
NHMSYS0000516465 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
lyphl
(Linnaeus, 1761)
insect - butterfly
Species
1683
135
69
06/05/2008
27/09/2020
16 January (recorded in 2019)
5 November (recorded in 2018)
National Biodiversity Data Centre, Irish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/316/Species/77512>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)