Snethlage's Tody-Tyrant occurs in dense understory in the Amazon Basin. In Peru, the account reports only a few sight records along the Yavarí River.
The crown and upperparts are gray-olive. Yellowish edges on the wing feathers form two thin wing bars. The whitish underparts have a yellow tinge and faint olive streaks.
It forages in the thick understory of Amazonian floodplain forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.