This tanager occurs on the eastern Andean slopes of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It has a deep red body with a black facial mask, throat, upper breast, wings, and tail, and joins mixed flocks in mountain-forest canopies.
Adults are deep crimson, with a black mask, throat, upper breast, wings, and tail. The sexes are similar in appearance.
It forages in the canopy and subcanopy of humid montane forest, usually with mixed-species flocks. In Peru it is recorded on the eastern Andean slope.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.