Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.
Eastern Colombia (southern from Meta and Vaupés), eastern and southern Venezuela (south-eastern Sucre south to Delta Amacuro, Bolívar and Amazonas), Trinidad and the Guianas south to eastern Ecuador (primarily R Napo and R Aguarico, but certainly more widespread), eastern Peru (Loreto, Ucayali, recorded also Madre de Dios), extreme north-western Bolivia (Pando area), and Amazonian Brazil (east to Maranhío, south to Rondônia, southern Mato Grosso, Goiás and Tocantins).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Sulphury Flycatcher (Tyrannopsis sulphurea) [XC769518]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Porto Franco, Maranh\u00e3o Ecopousada Brasil, Brazil (call, song)
Sulphury Flycatcher (Tyrannopsis sulphurea) [XC675690]
by Dante Buzzetti from North of Los Indios, Federico Roman, Pando Department, Bolivia (call, song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Long considered closely related to Myiozetetes on grounds of plumage. More recent evidence relating primarily to syringeal morphology, nest architecture and molecular-sequence data indicates close affinity with, instead, Megarynchus. Molecular data also provide conflicting but fairly weak evidence for the two being either the sister-group to Conopias, or basal to a group including Conopias as sister to a well-supported clade containing Empidonomus, Griseotyrannus and Tyrannus, but additional sequence data necessary in order to resolve true affinities among these taxa.