Olive upperparts, a yellow rump, black tail, and white throat mark this flycatcher. Males have a hidden yellow crown patch. It searches for insects low in forest.
The upperparts are olive, the rump yellow, the tail black, the throat white, and the rest of the underside mostly yellow. Males have a hidden yellow crown patch, and there are long bristles around the bill.
It moves through low forest foliage, usually in pairs, and may join mixed-species flocks. It fans its tail while searching leaves for insects.
A nest of subspecies snethlagei found on 15 February 2017 on the Araripe Plateau, Ceará, Brazil, hung from a slender branch 89 cm above a stream. It was long and enclosed, with a round lateral entrance low down, and held two nestlings.
The 2017 Araripe nest was made of long rootlets, strips of dry leaves, tendrils and fine sticks, with thin rootlets lining the inside. Nest material projected over its entrance.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.