It is endemic to Australia, and was first described in 1916 by German naturalist Karl Kraepelin[1] from material collected by Swedish zoologist and explorer Eric Mjöberg.

[2] It is a relatively small species, averaging 38 millimetres in length, with a pale brownish-yellow body, reddish-brown head, and variably coloured last segment and back legs.

Its notable characteristics include short, 17-segmented antennae, mouthparts with 4 or 5 large outward-facing teeth, body segments with distinct median indentations, and varied leg features such as bristles at the base of claws on the first 20 pairs and 2 to 5 spines on the last pair.

It exhibits a colour pattern of pale brownish-yellow body segments, reddish-brown head, and the last body segment and the pair of legs at the back may vary between brownish to light orangish or greenish yellow.

[4] The centipedes are solitary terrestrial predators that inhabit plant litter, soil and rotting wood.