This ground-dwelling antpitta occurs in the southeastern Peruvian Andes. A 2020 paper treats it as a distinct species; the nominate subspecies has dark reddish-brown upperparts and paler underparts.
The nominate G. o. occabambae has dark reddish-yellow-brown upperparts and paler underparts with pale feather edges; the undertail-coverts are pale yellowish buff.
A study of four nests at Wayqecha, Cusco, found them in shallow cavities in trees or tree ferns in mature forest dominated by Chusquea.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.