Among the smallest fruit-eating bats, it uses leaf tents as roosts. It has a broad range across humid forests of Central and South America.
It is one of the world's smallest frugivorous bats.
It eats fruit and uses tents formed from folded leaves as daytime roosts. Records from within the Cerrado were also found in forest enclaves and riparian woodland.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.