diff --git a/src/types/checker/type_compat/declarations.rs b/src/types/checker/type_compat/declarations.rs
index ec7b0415ef..5fa1c00a95 100644
--- a/src/types/checker/type_compat/declarations.rs
+++ b/src/types/checker/type_compat/declarations.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 //! - Rules here define accepted programs, so PHP covariance, inheritance, and extension-specific constraints must stay explicit.
 
 use crate::errors::CompileError;
-use crate::parser::ast::{Expr, TypeExpr};
+use crate::parser::ast::{Expr, ExprKind, StaticReceiver, TypeExpr};
 use crate::types::{callable_wrapper_sig, ClassInfo, FunctionSig, PhpType};
 
 use super::super::inference::syntactic::infer_expr_type_syntactic;
@@ -184,6 +184,23 @@ impl Checker {
         context: &str,
     ) -> Result<(), CompileError> {
         if let Some(default_expr) = default_expr {
+            // An enum-case access used as a parameter default (`E $x = E::Case`) has the
+            // enum object type, but purely-syntactic inference types every `::` access as
+            // Str (it has no class table, and enum cases are populated after this schema
+            // pass). When the declared type is an enum/class object and the default is a
+            // scoped access naming that same type, accept it here; the later semantic pass
+            // validates that the case actually exists.
+            if let PhpType::Object(expected_class) = expected_ty {
+                if let ExprKind::ScopedConstantAccess {
+                    receiver: StaticReceiver::Named(recv),
+                    ..
+                } = &default_expr.kind
+                {
+                    if recv.as_canonical() == *expected_class {
+                        return Ok(());
+                    }
+                }
+            }
             let default_ty = infer_expr_type_syntactic(default_expr);
             self.require_compatible_arg_type(expected_ty, &default_ty, span, context)?;
         }
diff --git a/tests/codegen/types/enums.rs b/tests/codegen/types/enums.rs
index 0a5b9ff6bf..acf3a1c8d0 100644
--- a/tests/codegen/types/enums.rs
+++ b/tests/codegen/types/enums.rs
@@ -833,3 +833,14 @@ fn test_backed_int_enum_tryfrom_mixed() {
     );
     assert_eq!(out, "HighnullLow");
 }
+
+/// An enum-case parameter default (`Level $l = Level::Low`) types as the ENUM, not its backing
+/// scalar, so the declared parameter type accepts the default and calls without the argument use
+/// it. Byte-parity vs PHP 8.5.
+#[test]
+fn test_enum_case_parameter_default() {
+    let out = compile_and_run(
+        "<?php enum Level: string { case Low = 'low'; case High = 'high'; } function tag(Level $l = Level::Low): string { return $l->value; } echo tag(), ':', tag(Level::High);",
+    );
+    assert_eq!(out, "low:high");
+}