This tanager is recorded in humid eastern Andean forests of Peru and Ecuador. The source describes the nominate subspecies.
In the nominate subspecies described by the source, the head, back, and tail are yellow-olive, the throat bright yellow, and the underparts gray. The area between bill and eye is gray.
In humid eastern Andean forest, it moves through the canopy and subcanopy in pairs or small groups and may join mixed-species flocks.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.