A tanager of humid forests on the Pacific side of the Andes from central Colombia to northwestern Ecuador. It has a black body with a yellow breast patch and may join mixed-species flocks.
Most of its body is black, with a yellow crescent-shaped breast patch and additional yellow on the ventral region and underwing coverts.
It uses humid forests on the Pacific slope of the Andes and has been recorded alone or in pairs, as well as in mixed-species flocks in the canopy.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.