Archotermopsis has generally been thought to have a very large number of plesiomorphic (‘primitive’) characteristics, even though the Termopsidae are not the most basal termite family.
The biology of the genus was described in detail by Imms (1919), Chaudry & Ahmad (1972) and Roonwal et al. (1984), and the description below is taken from those accounts.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith