''Schizomyia impatientis'' is a species of fly in the family
Cecidomyiidae. This gall midge species induces
galls
Galls (from the Latin , 'oak-apple') or ''cecidia'' (from the Greek , anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants, fungi, or animals. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to be ...
on
jewelweeds in eastern North America.
It was first described by
Carl Robert Osten-Sacken in 1862.
References
Cecidomyiinae
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Insects described in 1862
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Gall-inducing insects
Diptera of North America
Taxa named by Carl Robert Osten-Sacken