An Australian bee that hasn’t been in almost 100 years has been found in the rainforests of eastern Australia according to an article in IFL Science. The Pharohylaeus lactiferus is the only Australian member of a genus usually found in New Guinea. The bees hasn’t bee seen since the mid 1920s until a university student called James Dorey from Flinders University spotted it whilst studying for a Phd.

According to Dory the bee is “part of a group called the masked bees that are relatively hairless and have quite remarkable facial markings,”. This makes them easy to distinguish from other bees, and P. lactiferus is “unusually big and thick, maybe with two ccs, so it can be told apart from most other masked bees”.

Here’s hoping for more exciting discoveries just like this in future.

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