Insectivore

insectivore, the common name applied to any of 450 or so species of mammals—comprising hedgehogs, golden moles, “true” moles, “true” shrews, the moonrat, gymnures, solenodons, and tenrecs—that subsist primarily on insects, other arthropods, and earthworms.

Insectivora is obsolete as a taxonomic order, but the term insectivore is still used to refer to the remaining members, which have been classified into three orders: Soricimorpha, Erinaceomorpha, and Chrysochloridea. Together these three orders are called grandorder Lipotyphla by mammalogists, its members being referred to as either lipotyphlans or insectivores.