The wing shape allows a slow flight speed, which gives a fluttery motion as the species moves closely to the vegetation in search of flying insects.

[3] The colour of the pelage is paler at the front, and the animal is sparsely covered with light brown to whitish hair at the intersection of the body and wing membrane.

[5][6] The records for the species are in the Top End of the Australian continent, at the Kimberley region in the northwest, and in the Gulf Country of the northeast to the west of Mount Isa.

They are known to occupy sandstone caves or piles of boulders, abandoned mines have also provided roosts for the species.

Foraging is in woodlands and rainforest habitat, and across open hilly plains dominated by spinifex.