A 2010 adult photograph notes blue tones on the lower body and tail as an identifying feature. At one Costa Rican study site in 2022, birds visited flowers; this is a local record.
The photographer notes that blue on the lower body and tail is one of the species’ distinctive signs. The adult photograph was taken in Alajuela, Costa Rica, in 2010.
In 2022 flower-visitation observations at Hotel Bougainvillea in Heredia, the species visited Megaskepasma erythrochlamys and loquat (Eriobotrya japonica). These records come from one study site.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.