Nesagapostemon Nesagapostemon Nesagapostemon is an extinct monotypic genus of sweat bee in the Halictidae subfamily Halictinae. At present, it contains the single species "Nesagapostemon moronei". The genus name "Nesagapostemon" is derived from a combination of the Greek "nesos", meaning "island", and "Agapostemon", a very similar genus of halictids which may be related. The species is named in honor of Ettore Morone of Turin, Italy. The species is known from the holotype, a single long female currently in the private collection owned by Morone (catalog number MACT-1172), and which was first studied by Dr. Michael S. Engel. Engel published his type description
Scylax of Caryanda the natives, which he would have accepted in good faith. Scylax's "Periplus" provided the West with its first account of the easterly people and served as a model for later Greek writers. More lastingly, it gave India its name. The people of the Indus region were referred to as "Hiduš" or "Hidush" in Persian (due to sound change of "*s" > "h" from Proto-Iranian "Sindhu"). If Scylax wrote in the Ionic dialect of Greek, which did not pronounce initial "h" sounds, he would have transformed it to "Indos" (plural: "Indoi"). Their land was characterised as "Indike" (the adjectival form, meaning