Olive upperparts, a pale iris, and two narrow wing bars help identify this small tyrant flycatcher. It forages in the understory and midstory inside forest.
The upperparts are mostly olive-green. Blackish wing coverts edged with yellowish color form two thin bars. The throat, breast, and belly center are yellowish with faint gray streaks; the iris is pale and the base of the lower mandible orange.
It forages in the understory and midstory of interior forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.