Australobius scabrior is a species of centipede in the Lithobiidae family. It was first described in 1920 by American biologist Ralph Vary Chamberlin.
The species occurs in the eastern states of mainland Australia: Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. The type locality is Kuranda, on the Atherton Tableland of north-eastern Queensland.
The centipedes are solitary terrestrial predators that inhabit plant litter and soil.