A small tyrannulet recorded in the northern mountains of Venezuela. Its original description notes a yellow belly and two yellow wing-bars.
The 1898 description records a uniformly sulphur-yellow underside, two broad yellow wing-bars formed by covert tips, and an olive-green crown and back.
It inhabits mountain forest and makes short sallies to take small invertebrates from foliage surfaces.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.