This horseshoe bat is recorded around Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. It day-roosts in caves and old mine workings, and has records in grassland and savanna regions.
The connecting process of its noseleaf is low and rounded in side view, and the lower lip has one groove. The original description reports a larger noseleaf, skull, and external dimensions than in R. hildebrandtii.
It day-roosts in caves, old mine adits, and rock crevices, and is sometimes seen in old buildings. Groups are usually small; about 40 were counted in one network of mine tunnels.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.