The Rufous-rumped Foliage-gleaner occurs in forests across South America, including Peru. It has a rufous tail and rump and a pale throat.
Its upperparts are olive-brown, with a variable rufous lower rump and a rufous tail. The throat is pale buff. The eye-ring and eyebrow are buffy in some subspecies and rufous in others.
Lowland subspecies forage in the understory of evergreen forest. The Andean-slope subspecies ochrogaster forages in the canopy and mid-story of montane forest; records in Peru reach 1,700 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.