This apalis lives in thickets and woodland in southern Africa. Adults have a gray head with a short pale eyebrow and search foliage for insects.
Adults have a dark gray head, a short pale eyebrow, a small black facial mask, and yellow on the flanks and sides of the breast.
It lives in forests, thickets, and moist shrubland with dense undergrowth, and gleans insects from foliage.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.