This hipposiderid bat occurs on the Solomon Islands and Bougainville. A complex noseleaf and a neonate recorded on Ysabel Island are described in a species paper.
The noseleaf is described as having two secondary leaflets and three upward projections; the tail is short.
A 2013 paper reports a neonate recorded on Ysabel Island as the first such record for the species.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.