The devil is in the tiny details.

A team of scientists discovered a new bee species they affectionately nicknamed “Lucifer” after noticing that its female cohort sports a set of devil-like horns.

Kit Prendergast, the lead author of the study published in the “Journal of Hymenoptera” on Nov. 10, wrote in a statement that she helped dream up the name while watching the award-winning Netflix show “Lucifer.”

“The name just fit perfectly. I am also a huge fan of the Netflix character Lucifer so it was a no-brainer,” Prendergast said in a statement .

They dubbed the new species the Megachile lucifer . The group stumbled across it in 2019 while surveying a critically endangered wildflower in Western Australia’s Goldfields, according to the study.

The species’ female bees feature “highl

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