spongillan.
/spʌnˈdʒɪlə/ Entomology.
spongilla fly n. any neuropteran insect of the family Sisyridae, whose larvae are parasitic on freshwater sponges; a sponge-fly.
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1901 J. G. Needham in Bull. N.Y. State Mus. No. 47. 560 I would suggest that as a common name for the insects of these two genera, spongilla flies, or sponge flies, would not be inappropriate.
1942 S. W. Frost Gen. Entomol. xiv. 282 The larvae of the Neuroptera are almost entirely predacious. The spongilla flies (Sisyridae) and the mantispids (Mantispidae) alone are parasitic.
1952 J. Clegg Freshwater Life vi. 108 In particular the larvae of Spongilla flies (Sisyra)..live on the surface of, or embedded in, the sponges.
1956 H. P. Chandler in R. L. Usinger Aquatic Insects Calif. ix. 235/2 Spongilla-flies are likely to occur wherever the proper species of sponge is to be found.
1972 L. A. Swan & C. S. Papp Common Insects N. Amer. xvi. 181 The larvae..of the Planipennia are terrestrial, excepting the spongillaflies (Sisyridae).
1989 D. J. Borror et al. Introd. Study Insects (ed. 6) xxvii. 366/2 There are six species of spongillaflies in North America.
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