This small tyrant flycatcher forages in the canopy and subcanopy of humid montane forest on Peru's eastern Andes. Its bright yellow face contrasts with its gray-olive head and back.
The head and mantle are gray-olive, the face and broad lores bright yellow, and the underparts gray. The dusky wing coverts have yellow edges.
It forages in the canopy and subcanopy of humid montane forest. The subspecies flavidifrons is also recorded in low-elevation semi-deciduous forest in Tumbes, northwestern Peru.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.