Extreme southern Ecuador (south-eastern Zamora-Chinchipe) and adjacent northern Peru (north-central Amazonas).
 
Population
Estimated population is 10,000 - 19,999 (2010) and decreasing.
Status VU
Forest clearance, especially along new extensions of the road network, through the activities of settlers attracted to the region, is the only known threat.
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Habits
Forages in pairs or small groups of up to five, occasionally joining mixed-species flocks.
Food
Fruit and insects.
Voice
A deliberate 'in-chee-tooch'. A penetrating 'seet' call.
Orange-throated Tanager (Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron) [XC297249]
by Ross Gallardy from Nangaritza, Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (call)
Orange-throated Tanager (Wetmorethraupis sterrhopteron) [XC93422]
by Roger Ahlman from Shaime cutoff road, Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador (song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Molecular studies place present species as sister to Bangsia. Differs from other genera in family in stiff, bristly throat feathers, although this condition is approached in Spindalis.