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Where does the Common Blue live?

Polyommatus icarus has 2,387,458 records in 75 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from United Kingdom.

Common Blue
Common Blue — Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaArthropodaInsectaLepidopteraLycaenidaePolyommatus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. 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 1,211,305
Netherlands 262,927
Switzerland 250,533
France 213,725
Belgium 82,659
Germany 81,907
Sweden 44,984
Spain 32,792
Denmark 32,277
Austria 27,904
Finland 25,039
Ireland 15,280
Canada 9,181
Italy 8,810
Norway 8,183
Serbia 8,113
Luxembourg 7,771
Poland 7,393
Russia 6,729
Hungary 6,498
Israel 5,118
Guernsey 4,249
Jersey 4,220
Greece 3,117
Lithuania 2,845
Czechia 2,729
Estonia 2,402
Türkiye 2,263
Ukraine 2,093
Isle of Man 2,008
Bulgaria 1,871
Portugal 1,754
Romania 1,691
Croatia 1,107
Slovenia 826
Åland Islands 819
North Macedonia 540
United States 509
Cyprus 400
Albania 316

Showing the top 40 of 75 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.