This roughly 8 cm bird lives in northern Amazonia. Males have black-and-white streaking and yellow underparts, while females are buff and black; both search along tree sides.
It is about 8 cm long. The male has black-and-white streaked upperparts, a white throat, yellow underparts, dark streaks along the breast sides and a very short plain black tail. The female has buff-and-black streaking on the head and upperparts.
It forages along tree sides facing open or semi-open canopy. The regional account reports the species in northern Amazonia and Andean foothills to about 1,000 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.