This weasel is marked by a pale stripe along its back. It is recorded from the eastern Himalayas to northern Southeast Asia, but sightings are scarce and its southern limit is uncertain.
Its reddish-brown body has a narrow cream stripe running from the nape along the middle of the back to the base of the tail.
At about 10:30 on 29 January 1988, one weasel was observed in secondary forest beside a small stream in Phu Luang Wildlife Sanctuary, northern Thailand. It ran along a rotten log on the ground, stopping repeatedly to sniff it.
At 09:10 on 7 March 2019, a solitary weasel near Atet San Kawng village in Kachin State, northern Myanmar, moved through undergrowth in montane evergreen forest, searching among dried leaves and litter. The densely vegetated site was about 20 m from a stream.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.