It lives in forests of western Ecuador and adjacent Colombia and Peru. It catches large insects and spiders in the upper forest.
The Peruvian account describes cinnamon to rufous upperparts, dark wings with two rufous bars, and yellow-rufous underparts.
It uses humid, semi-deciduous, and gallery forest. It sallies from canopy or midstory to catch large insects and spiders.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.