The Piura Chat-Tyrant occurs on the western Andean slope of northwestern Peru. It has a brown back, broad white eyebrow, and rufous wing bars.
The back and rump are brown. A gray crown is set off by a long, broad white eyebrow; the black wing coverts have two rufous bars, and the underparts are grayish white.
It forages in the understory of semi-deciduous woodland and scrub.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.