The chocolate pipistrelle is a small bat recorded in South Asian highlands. In central Sri Lanka, an individual was observed roosting in a cavity in a tree trunk.
The observed bats were brown to chestnut-colored and had broad, triangular ears.
At Hantana in Sri Lanka, researchers recorded a bat roosting in a cavity in the trunk of a silver oak. This is a roost observation at one site.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.