The long-tailed tapaculo (Scytalopus micropterus) is a species of bird in the family Rhinocryptidae.

It is found in the eastern Andes of Colombia, Ecuador and far northern Peru.

Otherwise the long-tailed tapaculo has few distinctive morphological features: The male's plumage is drab, primarily dark gray with russet brown flanks that are barred with black.

[4] The long-tailed tapaculo occurs along the east slopes of the Andes from Colombia south to northern Peru.

Birds collected in September and November had active gonads, but no other information has been published.