This manakin lives in montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andean slope. The male’s rump color differs between subspecies, while the female is mainly green.
The male has a black-and-white head pattern. Its rump is blue in subspecies isidorei and bluish white in subspecies leucopygia. The female is green with a yellowish underside.
It uses the understory of montane forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.