It was moved by most taxonomic systems to Chrysuronia based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2014.

Their tail's base is dark bronze-green and the rest blue-black with greyish tips on the outer feathers.

[9] The blue-headed sapphire is found in inter-Andean valleys from western Colombia's Valle del Cauca Department south into Ecuador's Pichincha Province.

It inhabits dry scrublands, the edges of woodland and taller forest, and cultivated areas.

The blue-headed sapphire's song is "a repeated short-warbled phrase that starts with a squeaky 'tee' note, 'tee…teetlitlitsee-chup… teetlitlitsee-chup'."

"[9] The IUCN has assessed the blue-headed sapphire as being of Least Concern, though its population size is unknown and believed to be decreasing.

[1] It appears "able to use more or less extensively altered, open or cultivated areas" though much of its native habitat has been converted to agriculture.