This small tyrant flycatcher occurs on the eastern Andes in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. It forages in the canopy of humid montane forest.
It is about 11.5 cm long. It has a gray crown, a pale eyebrow bordered below by a dusky stripe, an olive mantle, two yellowish wingbars, and yellow underparts.
It forages in the canopy of humid montane forest. In Peru, the local account reports it from the upper Mayo Valley on the eastern Andean slope at 800–1,500 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.