This small flycatcher has yellowish-olive upperparts and yellow underparts. It occurs along lowland forest edges and in secondary forest in eastern Panama and northern Colombia.
The upperparts are uniformly yellowish olive; the wings and tail are blackish, with yellowish edging on parts of the wings. The underside is uniformly yellowish, with an olive wash on the sides.
The AOS checklist places this species at edges of tropical lowland evergreen forest and in secondary forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.