Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela.
Extreme south-western Venezuela (south-western Amazonas), south-central and eastern Colombia (along eastern base of Andes southern from Meta, and in extreme eastern Guainía), eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, and extreme north-western and southern Amazonian Brazil (upper R Negro drainage, and from western Amazonas east to Pará in the R Xingu drainage and south to Acre and northern Rondônia) south to north-western Bolivia (Pando, Beni, La Paz).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Banded Antbird (Dichrozona cincta) [XC40906]
by Jeremy Minns from explornapo lodge, Loreto, Peru (?)
Banded Antbird (Dichrozona cincta) [XC222389]
by Niels Krabbe from Rio Cristalino Jungle Lodge, Mato Grosso, Brazil (song)
Subspecies
Relationships uncertain. Specimens from extreme ends of range differ in plumage coloration; named subspecies stellata (eastern Ecuador, western Brazil) and zononota (west-central Brazil, northern Bolivia) described primarily on basis of darkness and coloration of crown and back, darkness and extent of grey on flanks, and size and number of breast spots, but comparative documentation considered insufficient. Further study is required to determine whether any geographical subspecies, with defined distributions, are recognizable.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
cincta (Pelzeln, 1868) - South-eastern Colombia to eastern Peru, north-western Bolivia, north-western and southern Amazonian Brazil.
stellata (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1880) - Eastern Ecuador and western Brazil.
zononota Ridgway, 1888 - West-central Brazil and northern Bolivia.