Polyommatus icarus (Rottemburg, 1775)

Common names

🇬🇧 Common Blue
🇫🇷 Azuré de la Bugrane, Argus bleu, Azuré d’Icare, Icare, Lycène Icare, Argus Icare

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Polyommatinae
Tribe: Polyommatini
Subtribe: Polyommatina
Genus: Polyommatus
Species: Polyommatus icarus

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Photographs

img/polyommatus-icarus.webp — Polyommatus icarus ♂

img/polyommatus-icarus-2.webp — Polyommatus icarus ♂

img/polyommatus-icarus-3.webp — Polyommatus icarus ♂

img/polyommatus-icarus-4.webp — Polyommatus icarus ♂ sitting on a flower of Plantago sp.

img/polyommatus-icarus-10.webp — Polyommatus icarus ♂

img/polyommatus-icarus-5.webp — Polyommatus icarus ♂

img/polyommatus-icarus-6.webp — Polyommatus icarus ♀ foraging on a flower of Centaurea jacea

img/polyommatus-icarus-7.webp — Polyommatus icarus ♀

img/polyommatus-icarus-11.webp — Polyommatus icarus ♀

img/polyommatus-icarus-8.webp — Polyommatus icarus ♀

img/polyommatus-icarus-9.webp — Polyommatus icarus ♂ (top) and ♀ (bottom) mating

Sources

van Swaay, C., Ellis, S., & Warren, M. (2025). Polyommatus icarus (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2025. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2025-1.RLTS.T174440A211430492.en