Their fossils are found in present-day Morocco, specifically the Maïder Region located South West of Erfoud.

[1] Drotops is large in comparison to most other trilobite genera, and can reach lengths of 20 centimetres (~10 in).

The species have fairly large schizochroal eyes which were mounted on turret-like structures that gave a near 360-degree field of view.

Drotops megalomanicus (megalomanicus from the Greek "μεγαλο": megalo-, meaning large or great, and "μανία": mania, meaning madness, frenzy[citation needed])[2] is described from fossils found in Jbel Issoumour, Morocco.

D. armatus has an enlarged glabella covered in rounded pustules, and schizochroal eyes which contained multiple lenses.