This small ovenbird occurs in eastern Paraguay, southeastern Brazil, and northeastern Argentina. Its rufous tail and wings and pale eyebrow are noticeable.
It has a whitish eyebrow, rufous wings and graduated tail, a whitish throat, and a buff-to-olive belly.
It lives in humid forest and secondary growth, moving along branches and trunks to glean arthropods from moss and bark.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.