Protochelifer australis is a species of pseudoscorpion in the Cheliferidae family.

It was described in 1937 by Australian zoologist Alan Tubb.

[1][2] The body length of a female syntype is 3.8 mm.

The colour of the female is mainly dark brown, the legs and pedipalps paler; that of a male nearly black, legs and pedipalps light brown.

The type locality is near Seal Bay on Lady Julia Percy Island, where the pseudoscorpions were found under stones.