A small flycatcher of the Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil. A foraging study often recorded birds in the canopy making sallies to take prey from foliage or the air.
The upperparts are olive-green and the underparts whitish, with darker green flanks. A white supercilium and two pale yellow wing-bars are useful field marks.
In a foraging study in Atlantic Forest, birds often fed in the canopy, making sallies to take prey from foliage or the air. Caterpillars were also recorded as food.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.