Ecology is little known. These bats fly high in open space, such as above rivers, streams, and lagoons, and above the forest canopy. They are attracted to concentrations of insects around high floodlights and are among the many species swooping around such lights, even in towns (Emmons and Feer 1997). They are associated with wet habitats and multistratal evergreen forest (Eisenberg 1989). Their roosts are not well known, perhaps they are found in or between the leaves of palm trees (Emmons and Feer 1997).

This species is distributed in the Amazonia portions of Peru (Escobedo and Velazco 2012), Colombia (Escobedo and Velazco 2012), Ecuador (Albuja 1999), Brazil (Fonseca et al. 1996), adjacent Venezuela (Linares 1998), Guianas and Surinam (Lim and Engstron 2005). Many specimens have been taken below 200 m elevation (Hood and Gardner 2008) and upper elevation limit is below 1,000 m in Venezuela (Handley 1976).

Retention of forest is needed.