This tanager lives in humid montane forest on Peru’s eastern Andes. Its white cap and red throat and chest stand out, and family groups forage in the upper forest.
Adults are bluish black with a white cap and a red throat and upper breast. The red is more intense in males than females. Juveniles are dull dark with a white cap but lack the red throat.
Family groups forage in the canopy and subcanopy of humid montane forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.