A horseshoe bat associated with African savannas. A 2018 taxonomic study recommends using this name for savanna populations in southern and eastern Africa.
An individual from Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, had a small hastate lancet on the noseleaf with a bluntly pointed tip.
The study recommends treating savanna populations in southern and eastern Africa as R. lobatus. It says that further work is needed to resolve some central and eastern African populations.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.