An antshrike with dark grey and black plumage in males and olive-brown plumage in females. It eats varied insects in South American lowland evergreen forest.
The male is dark grey, with a black throat and upper breast, a white interscapular patch and white-tipped wing coverts. The female is olive-brown with a whitish throat.
It lives mainly in lowland evergreen forest, usually at 300–650 m, and feeds on a wide variety of insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.