This tanager uses humid Andean forests. Males are dusky gray with a rufous cap; females have rufous throat and underparts, and the species may forage in mixed flocks.
Males are dusky gray with a rufous cap. Females have gray upperparts with a white eyebrow, rufous throat and underparts, and some white on the lower belly.
It forages in the canopy and subcanopy of humid montane forest and sometimes joins mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.