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Chalk-hill Blue

Lysandra coridon

60,252Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
23Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar45
Apr1
May10
Jun121
Jul19,944
Aug34,727
Sep5,369
Oct6
Nov0
Dec0

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Surrey England9,266
2Dorset England4,211
3Gloucestershire England3,670
4Isle of Wight England2,682
5Kent England2,137
6Somerset England1,600
7Oxfordshire England1,545
8Brighton and Hove England1,536
9West Berkshire England1,287
10Cambridgeshire England935
11Medway England883
12Suffolk England514
13Peterborough England347
14Portsmouth England190
15Norfolk England14
60,246 England

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 23 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
60,252
Peak month
August
Counties with records
23
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Lysandra coridon
Group
Butterflies and moths
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Lycaenidae
Genus
Lysandra
Name with authority
Lysandra coridon (Poda, 1761)
Described
1761
Contributing datasets
11

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q15768393 · GBIF 1925221