The African Pipistrelle is a small bat associated with woody habitats and forest edges, especially near water. Some records need care because similar species are difficult to distinguish.
The dorsal and ventral hairs are banded, with different colors at root and tip. Reported dorsal shades range from grayish or reddish brown to dark brown or blackish.
It forages along cluttered edges for beetles, true bugs, flies, and moths. Day roosts are poorly known, though it has been recorded in narrow rock cracks and beneath loose bark on dead trees.
Females are slightly heavier than males on average.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.