Species Detail - Purple Hairstreak (Neozephyrus quercus) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Butterflies of Ireland pre-2022".

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
N/A
N/A
neque
(Linnaeus, 1758)
insect - butterfly
Species
188
77
35
26/05/1990
29/09/2021
12 January (recorded in 2019)
1 November (recorded in 2006)
National Biodiversity Data Centre, Butterflies of Ireland pre-2022, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Purple Hairstreak (Neozephyrus quercus), accessed 22 February 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/378/Species/77180>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)