Eastern Madagascar populations include bats with gray-brown backs and white bellies, as well as reddish backs and cream bellies. The species is often recorded roosting in buildings.
Eastern Madagascar animals include grayish-brown or brown backs with white underparts, and slightly reddish to rusty backs with cream-beige underparts.
On Madagascar, many day-roost records are from buildings; fewer natural roosts were found under palm leaves or beneath bark on standing dead trees. The authors report no definitive cave-roost record.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.