This tanager occurs in the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia. A yellow band around the head and a dark facial mask stand out; it feeds on fruit and insects in the lower levels of humid montane forest.
A yellow band crosses the head around a dark mask. The back and tail are blue, the chest is blue-gray, and the lower belly is chestnut.
It uses humid montane forest and elfin-forest edges in the eastern Andes of Peru and Bolivia, from the understory into the midstory. Its diet includes fruit and insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.