This small tyrant flycatcher is recorded in northern Salta Province, Argentina. The national park database lists forest and montane-forest edges as its habitat.
It is about 11.5 cm long. Field marks include a dark crown, short white eyebrow, olive-brown back grading to a tawny rump, two ochre wing-bars, pale gray throat, darker breast and yellowish-white belly.
It occurs along forest and montane-forest edges. Argentina's SIB lists records in northern Salta Province.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.