hmm…. i know a few reigional vampiric variations you could probably use, but given ‘hive’, and folklore history, have you thought about epidemology terms? vampires have long been tied to plagues culturally, or they were before the romantic angle (even during for a while), but you could uses stages related to carriers, early infections, disease-spreading pests etc, both for the insectiod angle and as a slight from the people who named them. or vampires boasting about their capacity to spread.