This flycatcher appears in records from Venezuela. A female described in a 1937 field record had a deep-yellow underside and was noted at small groves and near lagoons. The paper uses an earlier taxonomic name.
A female observed in Venezuela in 1937 had a deep-yellow underside and no yellow or orange crown patch.
Wetmore records a bird in a small grove on open prairie and notes later records in similar groves and near lagoons.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.