This flycatcher lives in forest understory from southwestern Ecuador to northern Peru. It has a gray head and breast, whitish belly, and white wingbars.
It has a gray head and breast, a whitish belly, two white wingbars, and a pale eye ring.
It uses the understory of vine-rich forest and makes short sallies from shaded perches. Some records in deciduous forest are seasonal.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.