''Sathrochthonius tuena'' is a species of pseudoscorpion in the

Chthoniidae Chthoniidae is a family of pseudoscorpions within the superfamily Chthonioidea. The family contains more than 600 species in about 30 genera. Fossil species are known from Baltic, Dominican, and Burmese amber.Biology Catalog Chthoniidae now inc ...

family. It is endemic to Australia. It was described in 1962 by American arachnologist

Joseph Conrad Chamberlin Joseph Conrad Chamberlin (December 23, 1898 – July 17, 1962) was an American arachnologist who studied mainly pseudoscorpions. A native of Utah, he studied primarily at Stanford University while working most of his career in Oregon for the U.S. D ...

Distribution and habitat

The species occurs in eastern New South Wales. The type locality is ‘probably in the Blue Mountains near

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Behaviour

The pseudoscorpions are

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, terrestrial

predators Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill the ...

References

Chthoniidae Endemic fauna of Australia Pseudoscorpions of Australia Cave arachnids Arthropods of New South Wales Animals described in 1962 Taxa named by Joseph Conrad Chamberlin {{pseudoscorpion-stub