This bird lives in humid lowland forest of northern Amazonia. The female has a whitish chin, and in transitional forest it can join mixed flocks with another antshrike.
The female has a whitish chin.
It uses humid lowland forest understory, edges, and scrub. In northern Amazonia it occurs in terra firme and transitional forest, and locally in mature forest that is not flooded annually. Mixed flocks are reported in transitional forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.