The Black-bellied Blossom Bat is orange, has a claw on the second wing digit, and is widespread in the Bismarck Archipelago. In a lowland rainforest study, adults roosted alone beneath leaves by day.
It is orange and, unlike the other species in its genus in the 1993 revision, retains a claw on the second digit of the wing.
Adults studied in lowland rainforest on West New Britain sometimes roosted alone under banana leaves or in subcanopy foliage during the day.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.