MDD uses the current name Alionoctula paterculus and lists several countries from northern India through mainland Southeast Asia and southwestern China.
Back hairs are deep chocolate brown throughout. Belly hairs have dark bases and pale ginger-brown tips; the ears and wing membranes are dark brown.
A survey published in 2017 reports bats roosting in house crevices at Kankalay village, Myanmar. This is a record from one locality.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.