[6] The Russian myriapodologist Lidia P. Titova of the USSR Academy of Sciences first described this species in 1975.

Type specimens for this species include both sexes and are deposited in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University.

Thus, this evidence suggests that K. sselivanovi arrived at 53 leg pairs through a evolutionary process that added eight leg-bearing segments.

This centipede (preserved in an ethanol solution) is usually yellow, with the head, antennae, and forcipular segment (except for the tergite) a light brown.

[3] This species shares a distinctive set of features with its close relative K. meinerti.