This small flycatcher occurs in Central and South America. Its upperparts are olive and its underside yellow, with faint yellow wingbars. It is recorded at forest edges, in secondary woodland, and along gallery forests.
A Colombia-focused account describes olive upperparts, yellow underparts, a pale eyebrow, and faint yellow wingbars.
The AOU checklist lists lowland evergreen-forest edges, secondary forest, deciduous forest, and gallery forest, often with bamboo.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.