The name commemorates the Dutch ornithologist and taxidermist Andries Hoogerwerf.

The male is a crestless bluish-black pheasant with bare red facial skin, short tail and grey legs.

The female is different from the latter for having darker brown, lack of buff mottling and plainer plumage.

An Indonesian endemic, this little-known pheasant inhabits to mid-mountain forests of Gunung Leuser National Park in Aceh province.

Previously known only from two female specimens, it was recently discovered in a market in Medan, North Sumatra.