Species Detail - Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) - 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).
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Polyommatus icarus
Common Blue
NHMSYS0000516660 UnverifiedUnverified
N/A
poica
(Rottemburg, 1775)
insect - butterfly
Species
7260
585
110
01/01/1955
17/10/2021
2 January (recorded in 2021)
29 October (recorded in 2021)
National Biodiversity Data Centre, Butterflies of Ireland pre-2022, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus), accessed 30 April 2025, <https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/378/Species/77551>

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)