The spot-crowned antvireo (Dysithamnus puncticeps) is a species of bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds".

Adult males have a dark gray forehead, crown, and nape heavily marked with white spots.

Adult females have a rufous crown and nape with dark spots and pale buff ear coverts.

Its range continues into Colombia on the lower reaches of the Cauca River and along the country's Pacific slope into northwestern Ecuador as far as Manabí and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas provinces.

[4] The spot-crowned antvireo feeds mostly on insects and its diet also includes other arthropods like spiders.

It usually forages in pairs or family groups, and frequently as part of a mixed-species feeding flock.

[4][6][7][8] The spot-crowned antvireo breeds between April and July in Panama and nest-building has been recorded in late August in Colombia.