This very small tyrant flycatcher occurs in Amazonian lowlands and on the eastern Andean slopes. Its greyish olive body has a white forehead line between the eyes and pale wing-bars. It searches for tiny insects in mature forest canopy.
About 8.5 cm long, it is olive-grey above with a grey crown, a white forehead line joining the eyes, broken pale wing-bars, and a grey to yellowish throat.
It forages in the canopy of mature Amazonian forest, gleaning small insects among leaves.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.