This small manakin occurs in the western Amazon. Males have a bright red crown and broken red breast band; females have a washed-out version of the male's streaking.
Males have green upperparts, a bright red crown and a broken red band on the upper breast. Females are green above with weaker underpart streaking; both sexes have pale yellowish spots on the tertials.
In Rondônia, Brazil, one female was mist-netted in terra firme forest surrounding a granite outcrop.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.