"Found throughout Grande Terre, from Mt. Ignambi and Mt. Panié on the north, to Forêt de Thi on the south Beetles have been collected from trees and logs, with and without epiphytes, from under a rock near a dead tree, from Freycinetia axils, and during night." (James K. Liebherr in Cyphocoleus Chaudoir (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Odacanthini): descriptive taxonomy, phylogenetic relationships, and the Cenozoic history of New Caledonia, 2016)