Described by the lichenologists André Aptroot and Marcela Eugenia da Silva Cáceres in 2014, Bacidia termitophila was identified from a termite nest on the forest floor in the Parque Natural Municipal de Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil.

[1] The thallus of Bacidia termitophila is very thin, smooth, patchily shiny, and continuous, with a green colour.

They are typically solitary or clustered, convex in shape, with a dull chocolate brown colour that darkens to black as they age.

[1] Chemical tests on the thallus are uniformly negative (UV−, C−, K−, KC−, P−), indicating no detectable secondary metabolites typically found in many lichens.

[1] Bacidia termitophila is known only from its type locality in Brazil, where it grows exclusively on the soil of termite nests within primary rainforests.