Verpine

"Verpine choral arrangements. They don't sing, they just rub their legs together!"

- Sabine Wren, in her personal journal

The Verpine were an insectoid sentient species that controlled Roche Hive.

Biology and appearance
The Verpine were an insectoid sentient species with green skin. Bipedal, they had a pair of digitigrade legs that terminated in two-toed feed and a pair of saw-blade arms that ended in three-fingered hands. A Verpine's head sat atop a long back and had a pair of antenna, two black eyes, and mouthparts

Society and culture
The Verpine were a hive-based species. Instead of singing, they rubbed their legs together to produce choral arrangements and communicated by chattering. Verpine displayed affection by rubbing their mouthparts together.

They were the namesake of the cruciform Verpine ratchet.

Verpine in the galaxy
The Verpine-controlled Roche Hive manufactured the 8D-series smelter droid.

By the year 4 BBY, a Verpine known as Effor worked at an gladiatorial arena. A pair of Verpine New Republic advisors were loudly arguing at a table at Izzik's, a restaurant located in Nakadia's planetary capital of Quarrow, prior to the first convening of the Galactic Senate at the Quarrow Senate house. They were later leaning over a different table, lustily rubbing their mouthparts together.

Behind the scenes
The Verpine were first mentioned in the new Star Wars canon in Star Wars Rebels: Sabine My Rebel Sketchbook, a young readers book written by Daniel Wallace and released on February 3, 2015. They were originally created for Star Wars 7: New Planets, New Perils!, the seventh issue of the Legends Star Wars comic series published by Marvel Comics, which was first published on October 11, 1977.

Appearances

 * Aftermath: Empire's End
 * Aftermath: Empire's End