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History Lycaena dispar was first recorded in 1979, from the Huntingdonshire fens, England. Documentation of the Large Copper was done by the Committee appointed by the Entomological Society of London for the Protection of British Lepidoptera.

Reintroduction Reintroduction of L. dispar has been previously attempted.

Britain first attempted to reintroduce L. disbar in 1901, when G.H. Verbal released a number of larvae in Wicken Fen, however due to a lack of host plants the reintroduction was not viable. The first successful reintroduction, of the species, came in 1913, when W.B. Purefoy, established a colony of L. dispar rutilus in Greenfields, Tipperary, a small bog made suitable for L. diaper through the planting of preferable food plants.