A flycatcher of Timor and nearby islands. In the nominate subspecies, males are blue above and females are olive-brown above.
The nominate male has deep blue upperparts, a blackish-blue face, throat and breast, and an orange belly. The female is olive-brown above, with a blue rump and tail and orange-rufous underparts.
In moist lowland and montane forest, it perches on horizontal branches, sallies for small insects and returns to a perch.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.