Holotype of the Koghis Mountains, 700m.

Length 4.4mm, width 5.3mm

"This species is distributed in the southern end of Grand Terre, from Mt. Humboldt on the north to Forêt Nord on the south , These beetles are known from ranging 160–1600 m. They have been collected on tree trunks or downed logs,.This species is associated with emergent plant substrates, not the ground-level litter microhabitat."

LIEBHERR James K. , Cladistic classification of Mecyclothorax Sharp (Coleoptera,Carabidae, Moriomorphini) and taxonomic revision of the New Caledonian subgenus Phacothorax Jeannel, Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 65 (1) 2018, 1–63 | DOI 10.3897/dez.65.21000