This manakin lives in the understory of southern Amazonian forest in Peru. Males stand out with a red head on a black body, while females are green.
Males are black with a red head and thighs, pale brown eyes, and a yellow bill. Females are greenish, with brown eyes and bill and yellowish undertail coverts.
It forages in the understory of terra firme forest, which is not seasonally flooded by river rise.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.