This tanager was described from the eastern Andean slope. The study places it in Yungas and Tucumano-Bolivian forest from Peru to Bolivia and northwestern Argentina.
The male has a black facial mask extending over the ear-coverts, a greyer back, and paler underparts.
The description study associates it with eastern Andean Yungas and Tucumano-Bolivian forest. Detailed behavioral observations remain limited.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.