[3] The type specimen was obtained at Yuinmery, an area in the Mid West of the continent, at an altitude of approximately 450 metres.

[2] Authors have placed this with the 'pumilus group' of the genus, an uncertain alliance of the species Vespadelus pumilus and other taxa.

[6][4] The epithets honour an evolutionary biologist, Peter Raymond Baverstock, whose works include examining the systematics of Australian bats.

The colour of the fur at the back is a greyish-brown or a lighter fawn or sandy brown, this is variable or distinguishes two forms, the belly is respectively pale or white in these groups.

[7] The size of the colony is recorded as a few individuals or larger groups of sixty bats cohabiting in a hollow or building.

The distinction in males may be determined by comparative morphology of the genitalia in captives, or the size and form of the baculum removed from that.

The distinction from similar females of the little forest bat Vespadelus vulturnus in a superficial examination is darker and slightly larger.

[7] Threats include loss of habitat for roosts and foraging, the result of altered agricultural and forestry practices that degrade the local ecology.