This tanager is locally distributed in central Peru. It forages in Andean scrub and humid shrubbery.
Adults have an orange-rufous hood, a brown back, a pale center to the belly, and brown sides of the breast and flanks. Immatures are duller versions of adults.
It forages in Andean scrub and humid shrubbery, either in pairs or with mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.