This small tyrannulet uses moist lowland forest and its edges in Central America. Accounts also record it in plantations and gardens, where it feeds mainly on insects.
It is about 9 cm long with a very short tail, greenish-olive upperparts, a gray crown, yellow underparts, and a clear white supercilium.
It is recorded at moist lowland forest edges, in secondary forest, plantations, and gardens. Its main diet consists of insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.