Its wing membranes have a leaf-like net pattern, and the bat hides among foliage while roosting. It is widely but patchily recorded across sub-Saharan Africa.
The wing membranes carry a net-like pattern that resembles dead leaves, making a roosting bat difficult to spot among foliage.
It roosts among leaves or palm fronds, usually alone or in pairs. It forages along vegetation edges and mainly eats moths and other insects in flight.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.