Dumbéa, surroundings of the mounts of La Monnaie.

Holotype captured at lights.

Length: 8.5mm, Width: 4.6mm

Head, bright metallic green pronotum, with a weak coppery reflection on the disc, green Elytra with a silky reflection, the 3 internal interstices with a coppery reflection, dense pilosity on the epipleura. Dark brown mandibles, palps and the first 3 brown red antennal articles as the legs., The rest of the antennae dark.

Shiny black underside with short lust.

( Erisch KIRSCHENHOFER,"Neue Arten der Gattung Chlaenius BONELLI, 1810 aus Madagaskar, Malaysia (Insel Tioman) und Neukaledonien", Entomofauna ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR ENTOMOLOGIE, Band 36, Heft 36: 493-504, Januar 2015)