The White-cheeked Tody-Flycatcher is a small bird with a red crown and white cheeks. It lives in the Amazonian understory, especially in dense Guadua bamboo patches.
The male has a greenish back, black nape, red crown, white cheeks and underparts, and black wings and tail. Yellowish back stripes form a V. The female has green-yellow upperparts and gray sides of the head and breast.
It lives in the Amazonian understory and is associated with dense patches of Guadua bamboo.
The male has dark eyes and a bicoloured bill.
The female also has a reddish crown.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.