This nectar bat is known from lowland Amazonian Peru. The species treatment lists records only from its type locality in the Yavarí–Ucayali interfluvial region.
Dorsal and ventral hairs are bicolored, with pale pinkish bases and pale brown tips. It has an elongated muzzle, V-arranged dermal chin papillae, and blackish-brown ears and wing membranes.
The three specimens were taken at two daytime roosts beneath undercut banks of small streams in primary forest. The source reports no feeding information.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.