This scarce antbird inhabits lowland rainforest understory in eastern Ecuador and northeastern Peru. Males are gray and females brown, but both have a white eyebrow and throat.
The male is otherwise gray, with a white eyebrow and throat. The female is brown with tan scaling on the upperparts and buff spots in the tail.
It lives in the understory of lowland rainforest, typically alone or in pairs, often around swarms of marauding army ants.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.