Snethlage's tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus minor) is a species of bird in the family Tyrannidae, the tyrant flycatchers.

[2][6][7] One of them, the Clements taxonomy, in addition lists "Hemitriccus minor [undescribed form]" as potentially a new subspecies from within one of the others.

[6] The species' English name and the subspecific epithet of H. m. snethlageae commemorate the German-born Brazilian naturalist and ornithologist Emilie Snethlage (1868-1929).

Their throat and underparts are mostly pale yellow with faint grayish olive streaks except on the center of the belly.

Clock places H. m. pallens on both sides of the Amazon from near the Peruvian border in western Amazonas state east to the Negro and Madeira rivers.

[3] Hilty's Birds of Venezuela notes four records in southwestern Amazonas state adjacent to northwestern Brazil and assigns them to H. m.

Secondly, Schulenberg et al. include Snethlage's tody-tyrant in their Birds of Peru but with the caveat that it is known in the country only from sight records.

[11] The SACC concurs and lists the species as hypothetical in Peru due to the lack of documented records.

In all landscapes it mostly keeps to vine tangles and other dense vegetation at the forest edge and in gaps caused by fallen trees.

It feeds mostly in thick undergrowth between about 3 and 8 m (10 and 25 ft) above the ground, using short upward sallies from a perch to glean prey from the underside of vegetation.