This bat occurs in the lowlands of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It has pale patches behind the cheeks, a whitish throat and chest, and records from different lowland forest types in northern and southern parts of its range.
Pale patches lie behind the cheeks; the throat is whitish, the chest white to beige, and the flanks and abdomen pale brown.
The paper reports northern records from evergreen lowland forest and southern records from deciduous lowland forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.