This antbird lives in lowland Amazonian forest. The male is gray with a white throat, while the female is reddish brown with black barring; in Peru it uses the forest understory.
The male is gray with a white throat and supercilium, and has white bars on the tail. The female is reddish brown with black barring across the body.
In Peru it mainly uses the understory of terra firme forest and is also found, less often, in floodplain forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.