This tyrant flycatcher is recorded in humid montane forest on Peru's eastern Andean slope. The Peru account gives an elevational range of 800–1,950 m and notes that it also occurs in Colombia and Ecuador.
Adults are about 16 cm long, with greenish-brown upperparts, a broad yellow supercilium, a brown eye-band and a yellow throat. The underparts are bright yellow, and the wing feathers have pale edges.
The Peru account places it in the upper canopy of humid montane forest on the eastern Andes, where it may join mixed-species flocks. Its reported elevation there is 800–1,950 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.