Distinguished by a reddish-orange stripe over the eye, it is endemic to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, mainly living in humid highland forest.

Coenraad Jacob Temminck described this species by the name Lamprotornis erythrophris in 1824, and then moved it to the genus Enodes in 1839.

The crown, back, throat, breast and belly are dark grey.

The flight feathers are brown, their outer webs and the wing coverts covering them being olive-yellow.

It eats invertebrates and fruit, often climbing tree trunks to search for food.