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A scientist has a new species of bee in Australia. The bee tiny horns on its head. The scientist is bee ecologist Dr Kit Prendergast. She the bee the Latin name Mega-kylie lucifer. "Lucifer" is another name for the Devil. Dr Prendergast the bee while she was a survey of an endangered wildflower in the city of Perth, Western Australia. She the "Perth Now" news agency that she the bee its name because of its horns. She said: "These horns are very distinct and devilish. I wanted to it a devil-like name and so I decided on Lucifer." She : "Lucifer means 'light bringer' in Latin. I want to light to issues around the lack of conservation of native bees."

Australia is home to more than 2,000 species of native bees. Bee experts say that hundreds of them yet to be . Dr Prendergast said: "There are many native bees that have in Australia. We don't even the names of them. They haven't described. We don't know their distribution or where they nest." The Lucifer bee is "the first new member of this bee group to described in more than 20 years". She that there is a lot of "life we still have to ". Prendergast is that the endangered wildflower and the new bee "could at risk from habitat disturbance and other threatening processes like climate change".