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Good luck. I've never even heard or thought of an idea like that.
Are you making a race or monster?
Try this:
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/templates
And this:
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/templates/abomination-cr- 1-tohc
Go to the similar page listings below on listing No. 2
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Good luck. I've never even heard or thought of an idea like that.
Are you making a race or monster?
Try this:
LINK ONE (templates)
And this:
LINK TWO (Abomination template, in specific)
Go to the similar page listings below on listing No. 2
I helped!
Beyond that, there are a few other ideas you might want to try.
First of all, the abomination is a pretty solid template.
If you're not into templates, a lot of what I'll be linking won't interest you (for the record, I'm just perusing the templates link above, like you'd be, but then posting the more potentially-interesting or -viable choices), but I'll go ahead and post three things really quickly that aren't templates, off the top of my head:
- aranea: spellcasting, shapeshifting spider with a unique humanoid form and a hybrid of the two
- mongrelman: ugly monstrous humanoid with various feature
- ettercap: spider-related monster with both arachnid and humanoid features
Second of all, just so you know, unlike the 3.X version, the worm that walks is no longer an "epic" template - it lost some of the "epicness" of the 3rd Edition version, and was turned into a more lich-like template. I didn't realize this until perusing it, either. If you didn't mean "epic" in that sense... oops! Sorry. :D
Along the lines of the abomination template, you've got the amalgam template - like the abomination template, it's just mashing two creatures together.
That said, the verminoid template is pretty much exactly what you're looking for, I think - it's a humanoid vermin!
If you liked the "swarm" conceit of the worm that walks, you may like the collective creature - the creature would be a different shape from the expectation of that template, but it could otherwise function.
If you're looking more for thematic, than specific, elements, you've always got the eldritch template - simply give it a low CR and a few features of insects.
The fleshwarped template is pretty weird - it's the source of creating things like driders (), and the goblinoid "gublasks" () and orc-based "oronci" are solid examples, but the template itself doesn't "create" those creatures, just a random thing (which, I believe, according to lore, is what happens to "non-specific" transformations of the fleshwarped template).
In a related bit of weirdness, the mana-wasted mutant, mutant, mutant creature, and mutant goblin templates can all be used to create weird creatures with verminous qualities of various kinds - some of those will likely work better than others.
The lycanthrope* template specifies animals, however, in an old 3.5 game I ran quite some time back, I had a werespider gang the PCs destroyed - one of the PCs got infected, blew his fortitude save, and kept the template (and, after a quest or two, gained control over it). It seems the monstrous lycanthrope** template was designed to do the exact same thing, these days (it didn't exist when I was running).
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The manimal or teratocephalos templates are, again, aimed towards animals, but there isn't a reason I can think of not to apply either to vermin, as well.
If absolutely nothing else works for you, so far, there's always the tulpa creature - you can shift its features however you want, it's an incarnate dream! :D
Though it's really not what you're looking for, the pod spawned creature is a pretty funny variant that could lead to a MiB-style "EEEeeewwww" moment later. Similarly, the terror creature template can (not via original fluff, but by repainting) make a creature feel more "squicky" than normal. A totem animal vermin might be interesting for your game ().
(Also, don't be fooled: exoskeleton is basically just an undead vermin template, akin to a skeleton or zombie for a vermin.)