An antwren of lowland Colombia and western Venezuela. Males are gray-brown and black; females are pale below, and pairs forage low in dense shrubs.
Males are grayish-brown above and black below, with a thick white eyebrow and bold white spots on the wings and tail. Females are whitish below and may show dark streaks on the sides of the breast.
Pairs forage in the lower levels of dense shrubby woodland, often staying partly hidden. The account places it in lowlands up to about 1,000 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.