The head is fairly flat with a long, cone-shaped snout and a shallow depression between the large eyes.

Its range extends from Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa through Egypt and the Middle East to Pakistan and India.

[1] The naked-rumped tomb bat is agile, flying fast and high in open areas, hawking for insects.

It is a social species, becoming active about half an hour before the sun sets, and streaming from the daytime roost shortly after sunset.

The gestation period is nine weeks, but the female may store the sperm during hibernation, with fertilisation and pregnancy occurring in the spring.

[3] The naked-rumped tomb bat has a very wide range across northern and Central Africa, the Middle East and southern Asia.