Erich Volschenk

Erich Volschenk serves as a Senior Research Fellow at Murdoch University's Harry Butler Institute and holds a Research Associate position at the Western Australian Museum in Perth. His primary institutional affiliation centers on biodiversity research within Western Australia's ecosystems.

His research expertise spans the systematics of Australian scorpions (families Buthidae and Urodacidae), taxonomic classification of pseudoscorpions and soil centipedes, and methodological development for ground invertebrate survey sampling. This work contributes significantly to arachnid biodiversity documentation and ecological assessment techniques in Australian terrestrial environments.