The sooty ant tanager (Driophlox gutturalis) is a species of bird in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae).

The sooty ant tanager was formally described in 1854 by the English zoologist Philip Sclater under the binomial name Phoenicothraupis gutturalis.

The adult male is dark grey with a conspicuous scarlet crest (not always raised) and a rosy-red throat.

[6] This bird is found in northwest Colombia, occurring in the Upper Sínu Valley at the northern end of the western Andes, and east along the north base of the Andes to the middle Magdalena River Valley.

It prefers dense streamside and landslide habitats in extensive unbroken forest.