South-eastern Brazil (southern Bahia, southern Goiás and southern Mato Grosso do Sul south to Rio Grande do Sul), eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina (Misiones).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleaner (Anabacerthia lichtensteini) [XC287016]
by Jerome Fischer from Reserva Ecol\u00f3gica de Guapi A\u00e7u (REGUA), RJ, Brazil (call)
Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleaner (Anabacerthia lichtensteini) [XC843408]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from PN Iguacu, Parana state, Brazil (song)