This antbird lives in humid forest and bamboo thickets in southeastern Brazil. Its black head has a white eyebrow and cheeks; its black tail has broad white bars, and its underparts are rusty.
It has a black crown and sides of the head, a white supercilium and cheeks, a black tail with broad white bands, and bright rusty-brown underparts.
It uses dense vegetation in humid forest, secondary woodland and especially bamboo.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.