The upper parts are dark yellowish red, and the underparts are paler red. Felovia resembles Massoutiera externally but can be distinguished by its slightly grooved upper incisors and less prominent hair fringe on the inner edge of the ear.
Females have two pairs of mammae.
The basic ecology is as given above in the family account. She studied a colony in western Mali in 1972 that was present on the same site where it had been discovered in 1885. A captive female had an estrous cycle of 23 days. Four litters contained a single young each. The Johns Hopkins University Press.