The Yungas Manakin is recorded in humid Andean montane forest in southeastern Peru. Males are mostly black with a sky-blue back and ruby crown; females are olive green.
The male is mostly black with a sky-blue back and ruby-red crown. The female is olive green overall, and both sexes have reddish legs.
It forages in the middle and understory of humid montane forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.