This small bat occurs in western Madagascar. The IUCN assessment reports it at several sites in western dry deciduous forest and also from degraded habitats.
The original description records dark chocolate to dark tan-brown upper fur with gray streaks and medium tan-brown underparts with dark underfur.
In western Madagascar, it was often netted over water pools in dry deciduous forest and was also recorded in degraded habitat.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.