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Australia is
to more than 2,000 species of
bees. The newly-described bee is one of
in the country that have not been named. Dr Prendergast said: "[There are] many native bees that have evolved in Australia. We don't even know the
of them. They haven't been described. We don't know their distribution or
they nest." The Lucifer bee is "the first new
of this bee group to be described in more than 20 years". She added that there is a lot of "
we still have to discover". Prendergast is worried that the endangered
and the new bee "could be at risk from
disturbance and other threatening
like climate change".
