As if deadly snakes, spiders and sharks were not enough, Australia now has a new creepy critter: a “Lucifer” bee with devil-like horns.

The species – dubbed Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer – was found in the state of Western Australia , Curtin University announced on Tuesday.

Kit Prendergast at the university’s School of Molecular and Life Sciences discovered the bee while surveying a critically endangered wildflower in 2019 and was immediately drawn to the insect’s unique appearance.

“The female had these incredible little horns on her face,” she said.

A fan of the Netflix TV show Lucifer, she said the name was the perfect fit for the bee’s distinctively devilish appearance.

“It’s the first new member of this bee group to be described in more than 20 years, which really shows how

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