Holotype:  from Aoupigné summit, about 1000m. Length 4.7mm, width 5.1mm

"This species is only known from the heights of Mount Aoupinié, either near the summit emitter or along the approach road at an altitude of 850 m, associated with emerging plant substrates and not litter microhabitat 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