 Body length is 10 cm, hindfeet 0.8–1.5 cm, forearm 6.6 cm.It was observed that these bats eat fresh fruits of "Elaeocarpus oblongus" ("Rudraksh" or bead tree) and the figs "Ficus glomerata" (cluster fig), "Ficus macrocarpa" (Indian laurel fig) and "Ficus beddomei" ("Thavital", a strangler fig).The first description of the bat was from a single specimen collected at an altitude of 750 meters in the High Wavy Mountains of the Annamalai Western Ghats, Theni district, Tamil Nadu, South India.