The Barred Fruiteater is an Andean bird with a black head and a yellow, barred belly. It feeds in the canopy and middle levels of humid montane forest.
The male has a green back, a black head and bib, pale tips on black wing feathers, and a yellow belly with black bars. The female has a green head; both sexes have red bills and legs.
It feeds in the canopy and middle levels of humid montane forest.
Both sexes have a black band at the tip of the tail.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.