The Rufous-breasted Leaftosser lives in South American forests and searches leaf litter for small invertebrates. It has a dark face, a pale scaled throat and a chestnut rump.
It has a dark face, pale-edged scaling on the throat, a chestnut rump and a dark tail.
On the forest floor in evergreen lowland or montane forest, it searches leaf litter for spiders, beetles and other small invertebrates. The account also mentions adjacent second growth.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.