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Australia has more than 2,000
of bees. The new bee is
of hundreds in the country that have not been named. Prendergast said there are
bee species in Australia that we do not know about. She said: "We don't know their distribution or
they nest." The Lucifer bee is the first new
of its bee group to be found in over 20
. Prendergast said there was a
of "life we still have to discover". She is
that the new bee "could be at
from habitat disturbance" and other "threatening" events like climate
.