A small flowerpecker of Papua New Guinea’s Louisiade Archipelago. It feeds on fruit and nectar in the canopy of lowland forest and secondary growth.
About 9 cm long. Males of the Tagula and Misima nominate form have a dull-red crown, brighter red rump, blue-green gloss on gray-brown upperparts, whitish throat, red breast patch and yellowish-olive belly. Females lack the red breast patch.
It uses lowland moist forest and secondary growth, where it is seen alone or in pairs in the canopy. It feeds on fruit and nectar.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.