Latitudinal range: 16.4° to 26.4°

Habitats: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (3), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (3), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (1), tropical/subtropical savanna (1), desert/xeric shrubland (1)

Found in 10 samples

Mexico: El Rancho (bats), Los Tuxtlas Biological Research Station (forest fragment bats), Northern Colima, Los Tuxtlas (forest, 1990 - 1992), Las Grutas, Chamela Biosphere Reserve (dry forest), Cerro Tolistoque, La Ascension, San Luis de la Paz, Cueva de Abra (Late Pleistocene)

See also Leptonycteris curasoae, Leptonycteris nivalis, Leptonycteris yerbabuenae