This white-eye is centered on Sulawesi and the Lesser Sundas in Indonesia. It has yellow underparts and a white eye-ring. A university reference lists open coastal forest, forest edges, plantations, and urban areas; a survey in south-east Sulawesi also recorded it at mangrove and riparian forest edges.
The entire underside is yellow, and a white ring surrounds each eye.
A university reference lists open coastal forest, forest margins, plantations, and urban areas. A south-east Sulawesi survey recorded specimens at mangrove and riparian forest edges and on a university campus.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.