The species has been recorded from a range of habitats including tropical dry forest, montane tropical moist forest, both dry and moist savanna, shrublands, and high altitude grassland. Animals have been encountered roosting in buildings, caves and dense vegetation (including rolled banana leaves).

This species has been widely, but patchily, recorded over much of East Africa and southern Africa, parts of southern Central Africa, and with a single West African locality in southeastern Guinea. In East and southern Africa it is distributed from Ethiopia and the Sudan in the north, through Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi, to Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and northeastern South Africa. In Central Africa it is largely confined to southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Angola, Rwanda and Burundi and western Uganda. It has not \been recorded from Namibia or Botswana.

This species has been recorded from the Sengwa Wildlife Research Area and Kruger National Park in South Africa, and seem likely to be present in additional East or southern African protected areas. No direct conservation measures are currently needed for this species as a whole.