This antshrike inhabits forests from Mexico to Ecuador. It has warm-brown plumage, a pale eyebrow, and a rustier tail, and forages in the middle to upper levels of forest understory. The Rufescent Antshrike in Peru and Bolivia is a separate species.
The body is warm brown, with a broad pale buff eyebrow and a rustier tail. The stout gray bill is slightly hooked.
It forages slowly at middle to upper levels in the shade of humid evergreen lowland and foothill forest. It often joins mixed-species feeding flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.