Species Detail - Grayling (Hipparchia semele) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Distribution Atlas of Butterflies in Ireland 1979 (An Foras Forbartha)".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
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Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Hipparchia semele
Grayling
NHMSYS0000520428 RecommendedWell-formed
Threatened Species: Near threatened
hisem
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Insect - butterfly
Species
283
146
67
23/07/1948
31/12/1984
18 April (recorded in 2015)
8 October (recorded in 1999)
National Biodiversity Data Centre, Distribution Atlas of Butterflies in Ireland 1979 (An Foras Forbartha), National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Grayling (Hipparchia semele), accessed 19 January 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/94/Species/77578

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)