This small antbird occurs in Amazonian forest in Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia. Males are brown and gray, females are mainly brown, and both forage in the lower forest strata.
Males have a brown back and tail, gray sides of the head and underparts, and a black-and-white spotted throat. Females are mostly brown with darker brown wing-bars.
It feeds in the upper part of the lower stratum of Amazonian forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.