The Great Bent-winged Bat is recorded from the Philippines to the Solomon Islands. On Palawan, it was found in caves surrounded by different forest conditions.
In three Palawan specimens, forearm lengths were about 53–54 mm.
The paper reports cave roosting and foraging in disturbed forest. On Palawan, one bat was captured in a cave surrounded by old-growth forest and two in a cave near secondary forest and disturbed areas.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.