This small tyrant flycatcher uses Andean forest and tall montane scrub. Its white eyebrow and rufous-edged wing feathers contrast with a gray crown and back.
It has a gray crown and back, a white supercilium, a black eye stripe, pale wing bars with rufous edges, a white throat and a grayish breast.
It uses humid to semihumid forest and tall montane scrub, and is active in the canopy. PeruAves gives records from about 1,100 to 2,400 m.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.