Species Detail - Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Butterflies of Ireland post 2021".

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).
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Polyommatus icarus
Common Blue
NHMSYS0000516660 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
poica
(Rottemburg, 1775)
insect - butterfly
Species
351
165
72
22/08/2018
01/09/2024
2 January (recorded in 2021)
29 October (recorded in 2021)
National Biodiversity Data Centre, Butterflies of Ireland post 2021, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus), accessed 21 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/364/Species/77551>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)