#4035 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Black Spongillafly
🇳🇱 Gewone Sponsgaasvlieg ·Sisyra nigra
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
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base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 75 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,123 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Black Spongillafly
- Nederlands
- Gewone Sponsgaasvlieg
- scientific name
- Sisyra nigra
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Neuroptera
- family
- Sisyridae
- sightings in NL
- 75
- sightings in Europe
- 470
- sightings worldwide
- 1,123
- GBIF records in NL
- 4,302
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 363245, Wikidata Q1658448, GBIF 2097040, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.