The Rufous-faced Antbird occurs in Brazil south of the Amazon. Males and females have different plumage, and the species searches for invertebrates on the ground in moist forest.
The male is slate-gray overall, with two rows of small white dots on its black wing coverts. The female has a gray head, brown back, buff-spotted wings and throat, and orange-rufous underparts.
It is terrestrial in moist lowland and montane forest, often in dense habitat, and feeds on invertebrates.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.