The Peru account places this tanager in Andean montane forest and describes several forms with variable plumage. It forages in dense foliage from the understory into the middle story.
The account describes gray-brown upperparts and mostly reddish underparts across its forms, with variable black on the sides of the head. A white eyebrow is noted for only some forms.
It searches dense foliage in the understory and middle story of humid montane forest and often joins mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.