This pale-bellied bat is known from western Ecuador. The paper describes specimens from two localities there, including the coat and the surrounding forest environments.
The short dorsal fur has brown tips and white bases. The white portion is described as less than half the length of each hair.
The paper describes western Ecuadorian tropical rainforest. One specimen locality includes primary and disturbed forest, fruit trees, and plantations; the other is a protected dry-forest remnant containing primary and secondary forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.