A small tyrant flycatcher of northwestern Peru and Ecuador. It forages in the canopy and subcanopy of deciduous forest and in tall scrub.
It has warm gray upperparts, pale lores and a bushy gray-white crest that varies among birds. Pale wing-bars are poorly defined; the breast is gray and the lower belly yellowish.
It forages in the canopy and subcanopy of deciduous forest and in tall scrub. Peruvian records span lowlands and foothills.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.