This small tanager occurs in the mountain forests of eastern Peru. It is recorded in the understory at 2,300–3,300 m and is about 16.5 cm long.
It is about 16.5 cm long, smaller than K. atropileus. Its face is blacker, its brow is whiter, and its underparts are ochraceous yellow.
It lives in the undergrowth of montane forest on the eastern Peruvian Andes. The species account records it from Amazonas south of the Maranon River to Cusco at 2,300–3,300 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.