This fruit-eating bat has been recorded at high elevations on the eastern Andean slopes. Recent work has separated records of similar species.
Its dorsal fur is brown without a stripe. It has two pairs of pale facial stripes and an elongated triangular noseleaf with pale yellow or cream edges.
It eats fruit. A study in Peru’s Pampa Hermosa montane forest frequently recorded figs in the diet of V. melissa.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.