This honeyeater occurs only on Wetar Island, Indonesia. It visits flowers in forest canopies and tangled vines.
It has yellowish-green upperparts, a white throat, and a black line around the upper breast.
It occurs in wet lowland forest, coastal shrubland, and rural gardens, and feeds at flowers in the canopy and tangled vines. A 2008–2009 survey recorded it widely in Wetar's tropical forest and flowering Eucalyptus woodland.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.