Holotype: refuge of Mt Panié, 1300m . Lengh 5,4mm, width 5,8 mm

"This species is only known from 1300–1600 m elevation on Mt. Panié, in the northern portion of the Chaîne Centrale .Associated with emerging plant substrates and not microhabitat litter located at ground level. ""

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