The Para Foliage-gleaner occurs in the southern Brazilian Amazon. Its species account notes a greyish crown and rufous tail, and it uses terra firme forest as well as floodplain and secondary forest. This account follows the range of Automolus paraensis as a separate species.
The WikiAves species entry notes a greyish crown and a rufous tail.
It uses evergreen forest in the southern Brazilian Amazon, especially terra firme forest that is not seasonally flooded, and also occurs in várzea floodplain and secondary forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.