This antpitta occurs in humid mountain forest in Bolivia. It has a dark crown, orange face and white throat, and searches for small prey close to the ground.
The crown is dark, the face orange and the throat white.
It occurs at humid cloud- and elfin-forest edges with scrub, hopping on the ground or low vegetation while taking arthropods. The account describes it as rare deep inside forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.