The Malawi blue duiker is a small antelope from northeastern Zambia through Malawi to northern Mozambique. Its reddish coat has a medium- to dark-brown rump that contrasts sharply with the pale-red haunches. It forages mainly on fallen fruit and leaves on the forest floor.
The coat is reddish overall, with a rufous-gray or brown back and pale-rufous flanks. The rump is medium to dark brown, not black, especially dark beside the tail, and has a sharp boundary with the pale-red haunches. The underside ranges from white to very pale reddish gray, the forehead is dark brown, and rufous stripes border the dark forehead above the eyes. Both sexes have short, straight horns.
It uses forests and thickets. In northern Malawi, the HMW account records it in forests dominated by Podocarpus milanjianus, Kiggelaria africana, Diospyros whyteana, and Olinia africana. It selectively eats fallen fruit and leaves, mostly from the forest floor, but sometimes browses directly from plants. Fruits of Adenia stolzii, Chrysophyllum gorungosanum, and Garcinia kingaensis have been recorded from wild animals.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.