This flycatcher occurs on Palawan and nearby Philippine islands. It is found alone or in pairs in the understory of moist lowland, foothill, and secondary forest.
Males have blue upperparts, a black face, a pale chin and throat, an orange-rufous breast, and whitish lowerparts. Females are grey-brown above with a broken white eye-ring.
It takes small invertebrates in the forest understory. The cited account notes that its diet is little known in detail.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.