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Small Blue

Cupido minimus

24,267Records since 2000
JunePeak month
46Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar10
Apr68
May6,651
Jun11,069
Jul3,627
Aug2,575
Sep228
Oct1
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Dorset England3,563
2Gloucestershire England3,017
3Surrey England2,316
4Highland Scotland766
5Brighton and Hove England638
6Somerset England451
7West Berkshire England413
8Kent England363
9Moray Scotland345
10Medway England341
11Cambridgeshire England204
12Wakefield England168
13Pembrokeshire Wales135
14Torbay England102
15Swansea Wales90
21,853 England1,181 Scotland1,211 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 46 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
24,267
Peak month
June
Counties with records
46
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Cupido minimus
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
23,939
Conservation designations
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Wildlife (NI) Order 1985, Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, Biodiversity List – England, Biodiversity List – Wales, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), UK BAP priority species, Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Lycaenidae
Genus
Cupido
Name with authority
Cupido minimus Füssly, 1775
Described
1775
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q243913 · GBIF 1926260