This antbird account is based on records from Rio de Janeiro state and nearby areas. Males are grey, females olive-brown, and the birds forage low in humid forest.
The male is grey with a long tail, a white patch on the back, and white fringes on black wing coverts. The female is olive-brown with tawny underparts.
It forages low in humid forest. The account includes primary and secondary forest and their edges as habitat.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.