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moyotl.

Headword: 
moyotl.
Principal English Translation: 

mosquito; also, a person's name (gender not made clear)

IPAspelling: 
moːyoːtɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

moyotl. moxquito.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 58v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MŌYŌ-TL pĪ MŌYŌMEH ~ MŌ-MŌYOH mosquito, flying insect / mosquito (M)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 154.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents moyotl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Moyotl was a twenty-year old person, gender not specified. Son of Quetlemati (male) and Teicuh (female). (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 168–169.

momoyo (the reduplicative plural form)
Antonio Rincón, Arte mexicana: Vocbulario breve, que solamente contiene todas las dicciones ue en esta arte se traen por exemplos (1595), 5r.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.