The Green-and-black Fruiteater eats fruit in the canopy and middle levels of Andean montane forest. Males in northern Peru show striking green and black plumage.
Males described from northern Peru have sharply contrasting green and black plumage.
It uses the canopy and middle levels of Andean montane forest and eats small fruit.
Both sexes have a red bill and red legs.
The tail is green and unmarked.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.