This small tyrant flycatcher occurs in northeastern Brazil. A 2025 study describes it in the humid understory of semideciduous forest and reports solitary insect foraging.
It has olive-green upperparts, buff-pink around the eye, lores, throat, and breast, pale-edged wings, and a cinnamon-orange iris.
A 2025 study describes the species in the humid understory of dense semideciduous forest, where it usually forages alone. It takes insects by short sallies and by gleaning beneath leaves.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.