This tyrant flycatcher is recorded on the eastern Andean slope of Peru, foraging along humid montane forest edges and in scrub at 1,800–2,700 m.
The male is dusky gray overall, with a bluish-gray bill tipped in black. The female is gray with two white wing-bars.
It forages at humid montane forest edges and in montane scrub. The source says a similar relative replaces it geographically, with no overlap in their ranges.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.