This flycatcher lives on Sumba Island, Indonesia, searching for small invertebrates in low vegetation and near the ground in moist forest.
Adults have a rufous-brown head and upperparts, pale buff spots before the eyes, dark flight feathers, whitish underparts and rufous sides.
It uses moist lowland and secondary forest, edges and thickets, searching for small invertebrates in low vegetation and on or near the ground.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.