This pitta has glittering blue bands and lives in hill and montane forest on Borneo. It moves near the ground and searches for food around leaf litter and fallen trees.
Adults have red underparts, a tan-orange face, a blue-green back and glittering silver-blue bands across the chest.
It inhabits hill and montane forest and forages near the ground around leaf litter and fallen trees, feeding on ground-dwelling invertebrates.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.