The Sierra Nevada antpitta (Grallaria spatiator) is a species of bird in the family Grallariidae.

[2] However, during the twentieth century it was treated by most authors as a subspecies of what was then the rufous antpitta (G. rufula sensu lato).

[1] Grallaria antpittas are a "wonderful group of plump and round antbirds whose feathers are often fluffed up...they have stout bills [and] very short tails".

Adults have a mostly dark reddish yellow-brown crown, upperparts, wings, and tail with lighter edges on the flight feathers.

They eat arthropods and other invertebrates captured while running or hopping on the forest floor and stopping to find prey by flipping aside leaf litter and probing the soil.

The Sierra Nevada antpitta's long song is "a ringing, 3 [second] trill of c. 30 notes, evenly paced at 9.5–10.0 notes/[second] and falling gradually".