The Russet-naped Wren inhabits dry lowlands on Mexico's Pacific slope. It uses scrub and open woodland, where it feeds on invertebrates near the ground.
Adults have a russet crown and nape, a white eyebrow, a pale buff chest, fine dark bars on the flanks, and a tail with dark bars and a pale tip.
It is resident in dry lowland scrub, tropical deciduous forest, secondary forest, and gallery forest, and feeds on invertebrates near the ground.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.