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
Norma (given name) Norma (given name) Norma is a female name. A single instance of the name "Norma" is recorded 1203, where it perhaps derives from the Latin word "norma", meaning "precept". The name's general usage seems to be subsequent to the 1831 debut of Vincenzo Bellini's opera "Norma" whose librettist Felice Romani borrowed the name (and the plot) from the recent tragedy "Norma" by Alexandre Soumet. Soumet's choice of name for his title character may possibly have been influenced by the name of the Germanic mythological Norns. More recently "Norma" has been used as a female equivalent of the name "Norman", meaning