This antpitta occurs in northeastern Brazil. It has a white eyebrow and a second pale line below it, with rufous flanks, and searches for small invertebrates near the forest floor.
The back is olive to gray, with a small white eyebrow and another pale line below it. The flanks are rufous and the legs pink.
It stays near the ground in deciduous and semideciduous forest. The account describes it searching leaf litter for insects and other small invertebrates, and as shy.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.