This small bat is known from specimens in the Chocó region of western Ecuador and western Colombia. Its long, silky fur is cinnamon-colored on the back and pale buff below. Natural history records are scarce; the first specimen came from a moist forest fragment on the western slope of the Andes.
It has long, silky fur. The back is cinnamon-brown; on the underside, brown hair bases contrast with cinnamon-buff tips.
The first specimen was collected in a moist forest fragment on Ecuador's western Andean slope. A second specimen came from western Colombia; the paper reports no evidence of living individuals.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.