The Ornate Stipplethroat occurs in the lower and middle forest layers of the Amazon region. It has been reported moving through hanging dead leaves while foraging.
The head and underparts are gray, the throat is black and the wings have white bars. The account reports geographic variation in male back color between northern and southern Amazon populations.
The account describes mixed-flock foraging in the lower and middle forest layers, with birds searching among hanging dead leaves.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.