an earwig which live on the shoots of vines or a young vine-branch (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
xocomecayacatzuntli
Alonso de Molina:
xocomecayacatzuntli. tijeretas de sarmiento o de pampano. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 160v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.