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I just assumed that they were phoretic ... using the stratiomyid as a taxi service to disperse around the forest, but I'm not 100% sure. The only other pseudoscorpion in this batch was also attached to the back leg of a stratiomyid so there must be something about the lifecycle of strats + pseudoscorpions that creates this situation :)

I'm just amazed that the little strat was able to fly with so many things clinging to the back-end.