The Yellow-browed Toucanet is a green toucanet of montane cloud forest in north-central Peru. Its narrow yellow eyebrow is a striking field mark.
It is green overall, with a pale throat and a narrow yellow eyebrow. The tail tip is chestnut, the lower rump red, and the undertail yellow. A white stripe marks the base of the blue-gray bill.
It has been recorded in the canopy of humid montane cloud forest rich in epiphytes. The 2013 assessment especially noted forest with Clusia trees.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.