This small bat is distributed across the African savanna belt. Yemen specimens were described with dark brown fur and dark wing membranes.
The Yemen specimens were small, with dark brown fur, dark gray to blackish wing membranes, and dark brown or grayish ears.
A regional assessment of the Arabian Peninsula describes one Yemen record site, Jabal Bura, as having densely wooded lower slopes.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.