diff --git a/changelog.d/2489.change.rst b/changelog.d/2489.change.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..40eddbe734
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/2489.change.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+``pkg_resources`` behavior for zipimport now matches the regular behavior, and finds
+``.egg-info`` (previoulsy would only find ``.dist-info``) -- by :user:`thatch`
diff --git a/pkg_resources/__init__.py b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
index b58f29375c..73f8545967 100644
--- a/pkg_resources/__init__.py
+++ b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
@@ -1981,12 +1981,13 @@ def find_eggs_in_zip(importer, path_item, only=False):
         # don't yield nested distros
         return
     for subitem in metadata.resource_listdir(''):
+        lower = subitem.lower()
         if _is_egg_path(subitem):
             subpath = os.path.join(path_item, subitem)
             dists = find_eggs_in_zip(zipimport.zipimporter(subpath), subpath)
             for dist in dists:
                 yield dist
-        elif subitem.lower().endswith('.dist-info'):
+        elif subitem.lower().endswith(('.dist-info', '.egg-info')):
             subpath = os.path.join(path_item, subitem)
             submeta = EggMetadata(zipimport.zipimporter(subpath))
             submeta.egg_info = subpath
diff --git a/pkg_resources/tests/data/my-test-package-zip/my-test-package.zip b/pkg_resources/tests/data/my-test-package-zip/my-test-package.zip
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..81f9a0170f
Binary files /dev/null and b/pkg_resources/tests/data/my-test-package-zip/my-test-package.zip differ
diff --git a/pkg_resources/tests/test_find_distributions.py b/pkg_resources/tests/test_find_distributions.py
index f9594422f2..b01b4827a7 100644
--- a/pkg_resources/tests/test_find_distributions.py
+++ b/pkg_resources/tests/test_find_distributions.py
@@ -32,3 +32,12 @@ def test_zipped_egg(self, target_dir):
         assert [dist.project_name for dist in dists] == ['my-test-package']
         dists = pkg_resources.find_distributions(str(target_dir), only=True)
         assert not list(dists)
+
+    def test_zipped_sdist_one_level_removed(self, target_dir):
+        (TESTS_DATA_DIR / 'my-test-package-zip').copy(target_dir)
+        dists = pkg_resources.find_distributions(
+            str(target_dir / "my-test-package.zip"))
+        assert [dist.project_name for dist in dists] == ['my-test-package']
+        dists = pkg_resources.find_distributions(
+            str(target_dir / "my-test-package.zip"), only=True)
+        assert not list(dists)