The Ituri batis is a very small black and white bird, like a small shrike or old world flycatcher which is white below with a broad black breast band, a black head with a conspicuous white loral spot in front of a bright yellow eye.

[3] The Ituri batis occurs in the eastern Congo Basin in Ituri and Itombwe in the north eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where it is uncommon and in the Budongo Forest in western Uganda where it is common.

[2] Little known but expected to be territorial and rather solitary like other batises, although groups of six birds have been recorded.

A restless and active bird which forages high within the canopies of trees.

The breeding biology is unknown except that, males have been recorded as feeding the female in March in Uganda,[2] nestlings have been recorded in June and there is indirect evidence of breeding from February to August.