This small bird lives in the montane forests of western Cameroon. The male has a broad blue-black band across its white belly and a red bare wattle above the eye.
The adult male has black upperparts with a blue or green sheen and a broad blue-black band across the white underparts. Bare skin above the eye is red; the female is described as having a black throat and breast.
It lives in montane forest in the Bamenda Highlands and eats insects. The reviewed sources give little detail about its day-to-day behaviour.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.