This small flycatcher lives in humid montane forest on Peru's eastern Andes. It forages in the midstory and subcanopy.
The mantle is yellow olive and the head is gray. It has two yellow wing bars, a dusky ear patch, black streaking on the throat, and whitish underparts streaked with gray.
It forages in the midstory and subcanopy of humid montane forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.