This flycatcher ranges from Nicaragua and Panama south through the Andes to Bolivia. It lives in montane forest near streams and attends ant swarms.
It has dark olive-brown upperparts and head, a grey face, a yellow rump, rounded black tail, white throat, tawny-brown breast and dull yellow mid-belly.
It inhabits moist montane forest near streams and has been recorded attending ant swarms.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.