Swinny's horseshoe bat is an insect-eating bat found in southern and central Africa. It uses woodland and forest habitats and roosts by day in places such as caves and mines.
Horseshoe bats have an intricate, leaf-shaped structure around the nose. The shape of this noseleaf is one feature used to distinguish species.
It eats insects. In the southern part of its range it occurs in forests and woodlands, and rests by day in roosts such as caves and mines.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.