This tyrannulet is known from moist montane forest in southern Bahia, Brazil. Its olive upperparts, pale underparts and yellowish wing bars accompany a diet of arthropods.
It has olive-green upperparts, a faint gray crown center, a pale yellowish throat and breast, and two yellowish wing bars. The belly is pale yellow at the center with olive sides.
It inhabits moist montane forest in southern Bahia, near Boa Nova, and feeds on arthropods.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.