This antpitta is known from the eastern Andean slope of Ayacucho, Peru. A 2020 taxonomic paper described dark reddish-brown upperparts, a paler lower belly, and a male collected in a Chusquea thicket in secondary forest.
The upperparts are dark reddish yellow-brown. The front of the underparts is paler, grading to light buff on the lower belly.
The paper records the adult-male holotype in a Chusquea bamboo thicket in secondary forest at Chupón, Ayacucho.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.