This small tanager occurs in eastern Paraguay, southeastern Brazil, and northeastern Argentina. It uses dense undergrowth and bamboo thickets and feeds on insects.
The male has a chestnut head and throat, a small black mask around the eye, and a gray body. The female is brownish olive above, with a dull rufous crown and nape and pale buff underparts.
It is usually seen in pairs or family groups and feeds on insects. Accounts place it in bamboo thickets, dense forest undergrowth, second growth, and scrub along forest edges.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.