This yellow house bat occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. Its original description records reddish to mahogany dorsal fur and orange-toned underparts, darker on the chin and sides of the abdomen. A rural Kenya study also reported a shared building roost with another bat species.
The 2014 description reports reddish to mahogany dorsal fur and tan to orange underparts, darker at the chin and sides of the abdomen; the ear tips are described as semi-rounded.
A rural Kenya roost survey reported S. andrewreborii sharing a building roost with Mops pumilus.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.