This antbird is known from the Cordillera Azul of Peru. The describing paper reports it walking on the ground in humid montane forest and, at the time, known only from one ridge.
The adult male described in the paper has a gray supercilium, a black breast and belly, and two wing bars formed by broad pale tips to the coverts.
The describing paper characterizes it as a ground-walking antbird found in undisturbed humid montane forest around Flor de Café.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.