A small tyrant flycatcher of high-elevation forest in southern Venezuela and adjacent Brazil and Guyana. Its green upperparts, ruddy face and breast, and two rufous wing-bars are distinctive.
It has mainly green upperparts, a dark crown and nape, a ruddy face and breast, two rufous wing-bars, and a whitish belly.
It uses Pantepui forest and edges at roughly 1,400–2,500 m and gleans insects from foliage.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.