This tanager forages in the canopy of mature Amazonian forests, often with mixed-species flocks. The Peru Aves account records it up to 1,000 m along the Andean foothills.
The sides of the head and underparts are blue. The forehead, crown and eyebrow have an opal-like pale sheen; the nape and mantle are black, the wings blue and the rump pale opal.
It forages in mature-forest canopies with mixed-species flocks. The Bolivia account lists fruit as its main food, with arthropods also eaten.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.