This antbird relative lives in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. It searches for food in low branches and vine tangles in humid forest. Black spots mark its breast.
The head and neck are gray, and the upperparts are dull olive. The underparts are yellowish to apricot, with black spots across the breast.
It uses humid lower montane forest and the lower growth of forest, searching among vine tangles.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.