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) [XC837126]
by Mateus Gon\u00e7alves Santos from Igua\u00ed, Bahia, Brazil (call)
Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleaner (Anabacerthia lichtensteini) [XC287017]
by Alexandre Bianco from Reserva Ecol\u00f3gica de Guapi A\u00e7u (REGUA), RJ, Brazil (song)