[1] Anderson describes the naming of the species as a "spur-of-the-moment decision" inspired by Bautista's bat flip after a home run in game 5 of the 2015 American League Division Series, around which time Anderson was in the process of describing a number of weevils from Hispaniola, and specifically the Dominican Republic.

[4][5] Sicoderus bautistai inhabits forests of Hispaniola, typically associated with vine plants upon which they feed with a specialized long proboscis.

[1] The globose prothorax is widest at the middle and characterized by very few large, deep punctures and erect setae scattered throughout.

The fifth ventrite in males has fine, shallow setae on an impression covering about one half its length, whereas the female's is uniformly convex.

[1] The male has an aedeagus whose internal sac has a pair of basal sclerites that are long, curved, and join at the anterior.