This flycatcher occurs in New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. Adult males are glossy black; females combine grey and rufous-orange plumage.
Adult males have black upperparts with a greenish gloss, black throat and upper breast, and white lower underparts. Females are dark grey above, rufous-orange on the throat and upper breast, with a white eye-ring and white lower belly.
It uses open woodland, second growth, plantations, and mangroves. It sallies from a perch after flying insects and also catches prey while moving along forest edges.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.