This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in the highlands from Chiapas in southern Mexico through Guatemala to El Salvador. It uses scrubby woodland.
It has a pale lemon, teardrop-shaped eye-ring, pale lores, and a spiky crest.
It lives in thick scrubby woodland, especially oak, and eats insects. The account describes a cup-shaped nest of grass and plant fibers placed in a shrub fork.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.