An antpitta described from the northern Peruvian Andes. The accepted name in ITIS is Grallaria atuensis; the original description records the type specimen's appearance and locality.
The adult male type collected in 1932 had dark olive upperparts and chest, a cinnamon-colored throat, and short white feather tips that made the underparts look spotted.
The type was collected at the upper edge of temperate forest above Leymebamba, on the eastern cordillera's western slope in northern Peru.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.