This fruiteater occurs in two separated parts of the eastern Andes. Males have red on the throat and breast, while females have green upperparts and scaled underparts; birds forage in humid montane forest.
Males have green upperparts with red extending from the throat onto the breast. Females have green upperparts and scaled-looking underparts.
It forages in the canopy and subcanopy of humid montane forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.