This antbird occurs in western Amazonia, including northern Peru. Males and females differ in their breast and wing markings, and forage in the understory of floodplain and terra firme forest.
The male has a grey head, neck, and sides of the breast, a black bib, a white center to the belly, and chestnut upperparts and tail. Its black wing coverts have rufous bars. The female has rufous-brown upperparts, a reddish-brown breast, and white to buffy wing bars.
It forages in the understory of floodplain and terra firme forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.