This bat is recorded in peninsular Thailand. Its noseleaf has three supplementary leaflets, and surveys recorded it at limestone outcrops, caves, and forest sites.
In the Thai population formerly classified as H. turpis pendleburyi, the noseleaf has three supplementary leaflets.
Surveyed Thai records of the former H. turpis pendleburyi population were at limestone outcrops. Individuals were counted in caves and also captured at two forest sites.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.