This antbird occurs in Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina. It lives in the lower growth of scrub and woodland, and the sexes differ in eyebrow color.
The female has a black throat and chest, a white lower face and belly, and a black-and-rufous streaked back. The male has a white supercilium; the female's is buff.
It occupies the understory of scrub and woodland; the account reports habitat records up to about 1,100 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.