This pewee occurs in mountain forests of Costa Rica and extreme western Panama. It is dark gray and is recorded along forest edges and openings; it may be solitary outside the breeding period.
It is sooty olive-gray overall, with a darker cap, blackish wings and tail, subtle gray wing edges, a paler gray throat and a buff-white belly.
It uses edges, openings and clearings in humid montane forest. In Costa Rica it is reported breeding from March to June and may be solitary afterward.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.