It was described near Assis Brasil in Acre, Brazil. The 2013 original description said the type locality was the only known site then; a later account also shows records from Rio Branco.
It has olive-brown upperparts and two yellow wing-bars. The face and throat are greyish; diffuse yellowish streaks on the breast grade into a yellowish belly. Its dark bill has a flesh-colored base to the lower mandible.
It forages in the understorey of secondary growth and forest edges.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.