This small batis occurs in dry parts of East Africa. It uses acacia scrub, woodland, and wooded grassland.
It is 8–9 cm long. Males have bluish-grey foreheads, crowns, and backs; females are paler and browner, with a rufous or buff breast-band.
It uses dry acacia scrub and wooded grassland. A species account classifies its diet as mainly invertebrates and its foraging as short sallies from surfaces.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.