This cicadabird is recorded on the Kai Islands. Species accounts describe it searching for insects in the middle and lower levels of forests, secondary woodland, and edges.
Males are glossy black. Females are olive-brown with a grayish head, rufous-buff cheeks and underparts, and fine dark bars below.
A specialist species account places it in forest, secondary woodland, and edges, where it searches for insects in the middle and lower canopy. The Kai Islands survey records it on Kai Kecil and Kai Besar.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.