A new bee species discovered on the Culuccia peninsula.

It is called Andrena culucciae and is a new species of wild bee discovered on the Culuccia peninsula, in Santa Teresa Gallura.

Among the sand dunes, on the Armenia pungens flowers, flies a small, solitary black bee, one and a half centimeters long. Between May and June, it moves across the coastal vegetation of the island, purchased in 2017 by the owner of BasicNet, Marco Boglione, and transformed into a natural oasis and a heritage of biodiversity.

Previously unknown, the bee specimen was identified among the seventy-seven species present on Culuccia, thanks to scientific research conducted by the Department of Science of the University of Roma Tre in collaboration with the Naturalistic Observatory on the island of Culuccia, a point of reference in Sardinia for environmental research and education.

Named Andrena culucciae in honor of the place where it was first found, the presence of this pollinating insect on the promontory is a sign of the extraordinary biological diversity that characterizes it, also investigated through other studies that extend to the molluscs of the waters surrounding the three square kilometers of the peninsula and the diurnal butterflies that fly over it.