This antbird occurs in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago. Males are gray and white, while females are browner. It lives on or near the ground in flooded evergreen forest and eats insects and arachnids.
Males have dark-gray upperparts and a gray eyebrow. Their blackish-gray wings have two rows of white spots, and white underparts broadly streaked with gray.
It lives in the understory and on the ground of flooded evergreen forest. The profile reports insects such as beetles, as well as arachnids, in its diet.
Females have dark-brown upperparts, buff wing spots, and gray-streaked underparts.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.