This euphonia occurs on the southern Pacific slope of Costa Rica. Males have a yellow forehead and underparts with blue-black upperparts; females have an olive back and rufous underparts.
Males have a yellow forehead and underparts with blue-black upperparts. Females have a rufous forehead, olive upperparts, and cinnamon-rufous underparts. Juveniles resemble females but lack the rufous forehead.
It occurs in the mid- and upper levels of humid forest, at edges, and in open second growth. It is seen alone or in pairs and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.