This fruit-eating bat is recorded from Central America and northwestern South America. It uses figs, and specimens have been caught in forest canopy and subcanopy nets.
Its fur ranges from pale to dark brown and is banded in three colors; conspicuous facial stripes are present. A white dorsal stripe is obvious in some specimens but barely visible in others.
It is frugivorous and specializes on figs. Specimens have been caught in nets set in the forest canopy and subcanopy.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.