This antbird occurs in the western Amazon. The male is black with a concealed white shoulder patch; the female is rufous with a black head.
The male is uniformly black with a partly concealed white shoulder patch beneath the scapulars. The female is rufous with a black head. Both sexes have a red iris and bluish bare skin above the eye.
It forages, usually in pairs, in the understory of seasonally flooded forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.