This bat is confined to a relatively humid savanna belt along the southern Arabian coast. The current Mammal Diversity Database places it in Alionoctula, rather than the original genus Pipistrellus.
It has large ears and a short, broad tragus that curves forward. Dorsal fur occurs in gray-brown with a silvery tinge or in reddish brown; the underside is paler.
The species is reported from a relatively humid savanna strip along the coast between easternmost Yemen and southwestern Oman.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.