This antbird lives in upper Amazon forests, including southeastern Peru. Males are gray, females reddish brown, and the birds move through low forest cover.
It is about 15–16 cm long. Males are gray with white wing spots; females are brown to rufous and look different.
It forages alone or in pairs in dense forest understory. Peruvian records mention streamside cover, wet undergrowth, and Heliconia patches in terra firme forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.