What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Spring Azure been recorded?

Celastrina argiolus occurrence evidence comes from 107,750 records in 53 countries and territories, from 1830 to 2026. Most records come from Belgium.

Spring Azure
Spring Azure — Photo (display-sized rendition): Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InsectaLepidopteraLycaenidaeCelastrina

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

107,750 records across 53 countries and territories, 1830–2026.

Celastrina argiolus · GBIF taxon key 1925918

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-20. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: July.

5 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: July. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18302026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Spring Azure has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Spring Azure. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Belgium 68,540
Sweden 23,007
Germany 4,736
United Kingdom 3,909
South Korea 2,809
Austria 1,212
Luxembourg 816
Spain 748
United States 426
France 318
Romania 274
Russia 163
Netherlands 143
Italy 128
Ireland 66
Denmark 65
Finland 65
Switzerland 42
Mexico 36
Japan 24
Portugal 20
Bulgaria 19
Czechia 19
Greece 17
Croatia 15
Poland 13
Ukraine 13
Liechtenstein 11
Canada 10
Hungary 10
Slovenia 9
Albania 7
Slovakia 6
Andorra 5
Estonia 5
Norway 5
Thailand 5
Guernsey 4
Türkiye 4
China 3

Showing the top 40 of 53 places.

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.