This antbird lives in lowland areas north of the Amazon and Marañón rivers and searches for food in waterside shrubs and overhanging vegetation. Males show gray and black plumage; females have a paler belly center.
Males are gray with a black throat, white-barred black wing coverts, and a narrow white terminal tail band. Females lack the black throat and have a pale center to the belly.
It forages among waterside shrubs and vegetation overhanging the water. The account describes it as uncommon north of the Amazon and Marañón rivers.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.