• Odontotermes is a social insect.

• Lives in termatarium made of sand.

• Body is soft and thin, exceptionally enlarged abdomen and tiny head.

• Body is divisible into head, thorax and abdomen.

• Head contain a pair of antennae and a pair of compound eye.

• Well developed caste system.

• It is a destructive insect.

• It has very little or practically no locomotor powers.