This horseshoe bat was described from southwestern China. Its original description notes a wedge-shaped sella and a pointed connecting process on the noseleaf.
The noseleaf has a wedge-shaped sella and a pointed connecting process. The original description also reports a larger body than in the species compared there.
China’s underground-site survey records this species roosting in subterranean habitats in Yunnan and Guizhou. At Duobin in Guizhou, it was recorded in a natural cave.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.