This antshrike inhabits forests in the southern Amazon basin. Males are uniformly bluish gray; females have gray heads, breasts, and upperparts with a rufous belly. It forages in the forest midstory, usually with mixed-species flocks.
The male is uniformly bluish gray. The female has a gray head, breast, and upperparts, with a rufous belly.
It forages in the midstory of Amazonian forest, almost always with mixed-species flocks. The species account describes its range largely south of the Amazon River and extending into Brazil and Bolivia.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.