This antbird is recorded in Costa Rica's humid lowland forests. Its chestnut back, white underside, and blue-gray skin around the eye stand out; it uses the understory and adjacent secondary growth.
Adults are chestnut from the back to the tail, white below, and have bare blue-gray skin around the eye.
In Costa Rica, it is recorded in the understory of humid forest and in adjacent secondary growth and partly cleared areas.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.