The Speckled Spinetail lives in riverside and lowland forests on the Amazonian side of the Andes. It is spotted below and is reported to eat mainly spiders and cockroaches.
It has a chestnut crown, a buff-yellow eyebrow, brown spots on the buffy face, and spotted underparts.
It inhabits flooded riverside forest, river islands, flooded evergreen forest, and tropical lowland forest. Its diet is reported to consist mostly of cockroaches and spiders.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.