"Holotype Mt Mou summit. L 2,8 mm, W 3,4mm.

Restricted to the southern portion of Grande Terre, from Mt. Mou on the west, Mts. Koghis north of Noumea, and with a easternmost record from Forêt Cachée This species occupies the ground-level litter layer."

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