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Where does the Small Blue live?

Cupido minimus has 203,912 records in 52 countries and territories, from 1559 to 2026. Most records come from United Kingdom.

Small Blue
Small Blue — Photo: Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaArthropodaInsectaLepidopteraLycaenidaeCupido

When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. 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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United Kingdom 67,985
Switzerland 62,419
France 25,818
Sweden 9,841
Denmark 5,820
Austria 5,596
Germany 5,240
Spain 3,977
Netherlands 2,059
Finland 1,951
Norway 1,897
Luxembourg 1,608
Italy 1,342
Estonia 1,187
Serbia 1,131
Ireland 963
Poland 877
Belgium 804
Russia 801
Lithuania 494
Hungary 329
Romania 259
Åland Islands 258
Ukraine 143
Liechtenstein 119
Czechia 116
Slovenia 113
Andorra 112
Türkiye 93
Greece 91
North Macedonia 91
Croatia 79
Bulgaria 64
Slovakia 50
Portugal 42
Albania 31
Montenegro 15
Latvia 14
ZZ 13
Belarus 11

Showing the top 40 of 52 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. 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.