This tapaculo lives in bamboo and secondary forest in southeastern Brazil. Males are bluish grey, females browner, and both have white spots.
The male has bluish-grey head, back and breast, with dark brown wings and tail. The female is browner. Both sexes are white-spotted, with pale eyes, chin and belly.
It uses bamboo thickets in forest and secondary growth, foraging for insects and larvae in dense vegetation.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.