This antbird lives in Amazonian forest understory. Willis described the male with a white face, throat, and breast, a black crest, grey underparts, and greenish-brown upperparts; the female differs in crown and body pattern.
Willis’s comparison describes the male as white from the eye-ring to the chest, with grey underparts, greenish-brown upperparts, and a black crest. The female has a darker dusky-rufous crown and broader bars below.
A Macaulay Library record documents one adult female foraging just above an Eciton burchelli raid in the understory of terra firme evergreen forest in Amazonas, Brazil.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.