This antpitta was described from population B around Alta Floresta in Brazil. Study specimens show pale streaks on the back, a white belly, and ochre spots across the breast and flanks.
Study specimens have olive head and upperparts with conspicuous pale shaft streaks, a white belly, and ochre spotting across the breast and flanks.
In the Alta Floresta population in Brazil, birds were recorded in dense understory close to the ground in humid forest, including near streams and treefall gaps.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.