Women's names as epithets (aemula, glabella)

[christian thompson]

Taxacomers:

There is a masculine genus of flower flies in which a few epithets are clearly female first names. The authors of these epithet never made any statement about the derivation of the epithets. But Eristalis claudia, cora, doris, dorothea, thalia, and vera, are all female names and were used as nouns.

My question is a couple other names which look to me like they are also female fore names, but I can not find them in my Webster (English) dictionary as such. Google was of little help beyond finding some plants which have them as epithets and noting that one is a morphological term. So, does the taxacom community know whether "glabella" or "aemula" in other cultures have been used as female forenames?

Cheers 

F. Christian Thompson
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