This warbler is recorded in the northeastern Colombian and western Venezuelan Andes. It has olive upperparts, a yellow belly, and a grey throat and chest.
The upperparts are dark olive. A thin yellow line crosses the crown; the cheeks are slate grey, the throat and chest are pale grey, and the belly is yellow.
It lives in the understory and edges of humid mountain forest, secondary vegetation, and dense scrub. Its diet is mainly insects and other small invertebrates such as beetles.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.