This millipede is found mostly in moist forest in the mountains along the Tennessee–North Carolina border.
The described male and female have a chestnut brown to black background on the back.
It has been collected mostly in moist mixed forest with oak, maple, tuliptree, hemlock and rhododendron.
The described male and female have two pink to red spots on the side extensions of each dorsal body segment, one on each side.
In the described male and female, the plate immediately behind the head is outlined in pink.
Male reproductive appendages vary greatly in shape, and the populations treated as this species may include more than one externally similar species.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.