This woodcreeper is recorded from Amazonian lowlands to the eastern Andean slope. Pale, dark-edged spots mark its head, back and underparts, and it searches for food in lower and middle forest layers.
About 20.5 cm long, with pale spots edged in dark on the head, back and underparts. The throat is brownish and the bill dusky gray.
It forages mainly in the lower and middle layers of terra firme forest, and also uses tall várzea forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.