Its back is dark chestnut, while the chest and belly are pale gray to whitish. A 2001 field guide lists one specimen collected at Fianarantsoa as a Madagascar record.
The back is dark chestnut and the chest and belly are pale gray to whitish; the wings are paler than the body. The ears nearly meet at the base but do not touch.
The guide reports no echolocation calls recorded in Madagascar, while calls reported from South Africa were low and narrow in bandwidth.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.