Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela.
Extreme eastern Colombia, south-western Venezuela and Amazonian Brazil (from upper R Negro drainage east to Manaus area, south to Mato Grosso); also southern Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana and adjacent north-eastern Brazil (northern Amapá).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Pale-bellied Mourner (Rhytipterna immunda) [XC442190]
by Mauricio \u00c1lvarez-Rebolledo (Colecci\u00f3n de Sonidos Ambientales - Instituto Humboldt) from Caracara\u00ed, Roraima, Brazil (song)
Pale-bellied Mourner (Rhytipterna immunda) [XC66669]
by Joseph Tobias from Porto Grande, AP. Campina south of town, Brazil (call)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Placed by early authors in the family Cotingidae, with supposed close relationship to genera Laniocera and Lipaugus. However, well-supported anatomical evidence indicates that it is a tyrannid, having close affinities to Sirystes, Casiornis and Myiarchus.