This free-tailed bat is known from the Peruvian Andes. Identification accounts describe dark-brown fur and dental features. Museum records and known reports point to a locality near Machu Picchu; details of its daily life remain undocumented.
A Neotropical identification key describes dark-brown fur and an upper dental feature used to distinguish it from a close relative.
The Smithsonian type catalogue places the specimen near a bridge along a mountain river. The sources reviewed do not document roosts, diet or foraging behavior.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.