This tanager ranges from Central America into northwestern South America. It uses the canopy and edges of moist lowland forest and may join mixed-species flocks in pairs.
Males are deep emerald with a yellow back and mostly rufous head and wings. Females are duller yellow-green but still have obvious rufous wings.
It occurs in the canopy and along edges of moist lowland forest, frequently in pairs accompanying mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.