This antwren occurs in separated forest regions of Central and South America. Males are gray, females are olive-brownish, and both accounts describe rusty tones in the wings.
The male is gray with white edging on black wing coverts and rusty flight feathers. The female is olive to brownish gray with pale underparts.
It forages for insects and other invertebrates in forest and at forest edges, often in the canopy.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.