This monarch flycatcher occurs on islands of the eastern Lesser Sundas in Indonesia, including the Tanimbar Islands. It uses moist lowland and mangrove forests.
It has a black head and throat, dark grey upperparts, white underparts, and a tail that is black in the center and white toward the outer feathers. The sexes are similar.
It forages in the middle levels of moist lowland and mangrove forests, often in pairs or small groups and frequently in mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.