The Ochre-flanked Tapaculo is recorded in northwestern Patagonia in Argentina and in Chile. It has a dark brown back, grey breast, and ochre belly, and uses scrub in open woodland and secondary forest, where it eats insects.
The back is dark brown, the breast grey and paler toward the belly, and the belly ochre. The legs are yellowish; the bill is thick and the claws long. Juveniles have barred flanks.
It uses reed beds and scrub in open woodland and secondary forest, feeds on insects, and is described moving through leaf litter and low vegetation.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.