This small flycatcher lives in humid mountain forest east of the Andes. It searches leaves and branches in the canopy and may join mixed-species flocks.
The crown and back are olive, with a concealed rufous crown patch. Black wings have two pale bars; a rufous eye-ring surrounds the eye, and the ochre throat and breast fade to yellow below.
It searches the exposed surfaces of leaves and branches in the canopy of humid montane forest and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.