This tanager inhabits humid forest on the lower western Andean slopes of Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Its brilliant indigo-blue plumage is distinctive.
Its plumage is brilliant ultramarine, with blackish flight feathers, a narrow black eye-ring and lores, and deep red irises.
It uses humid forest on the lower western Andean slopes. The consulted article does not provide detailed feeding or nesting behavior.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.