A honeyeater from Kadavu Island, Fiji. The species account is headed Xanthotis provocator, an older combination, and notes its placement in Meliphacator under Clements.
Adult birds have a yellow to golden eye area with a black line below it. The upperparts are olive-gray with fine white streaks, and the underparts also show white streaking.
It feeds on nectar, insects, and spiders. The account records it in lowland, montane, and secondary forest, as well as coastal scrub, mangroves, farms, and settlements.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.