This tanager occurs from Panama through Colombia to Ecuador. Males are mostly black with a white eyebrow and scarlet eyebrow tufts; the species uses humid lowland forest and its edges.
The male is almost entirely black, with a white supercilium and scarlet tufts above the eyes.
It occurs in lowland evergreen humid forest, forest edges and second growth. Oiseaux.net describes it as feeding on invertebrates and as omnivorous.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.