The Lemon-spectacled Tanager is a tanager of humid tropical forest. Its yellow lores and eye ring are reported as useful distinctions from close relatives.
Yellow lores and a yellow eye ring help distinguish it from close relatives such as C. carmioli and C. frenata.
It searches leaves for insects and other invertebrates in lowland and montane evergreen forest and secondary forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.