It possesses a tiny baculum, which is just 0.57 mm in length, with a blunt tip and slightly expanded base.

Juvenile bats attach themselves to the body of their mothers in a reversed position while sucking at one of two pubic teats.

During retrieval the mothers move towards their infants, gently touch it with the forearm, and present the ventral surface, especially the pubic region.

[1] The echolocation signals of H. speoris lack an initial upward frequency-modulated sweep and are of moderate duration (5.1–8.7 ms).

The bat is found in India (Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and Uttarakhand), Sri Lanka, and more recently has also been recorded in Pyay, Myanmar.

The bats tend to roost in caves, caverns, underground cellars, old forts, palaces, under bridges, old disused buildings, temples, tunnels in dry plains or forested hillsides.

[1] The species is listed by the IUCN as least concern as it has a wide range, can tolerate many habitats, has a large population, and is not thought to be declining rapidly.

The species is locally threatened in parts of India because of hunting for local consumption and medicinal purposes, persecution by fumigation, roost disturbance due to tourism related activities, stone quarrying, and developmental activities such as tearing down old disused buildings leading to loss of roosting sites.