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tlalacatl.

Headword: 
tlalacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of insect, possibly a cicada (see the painting in the DFC); they are born underground in humid places, have hands and feet, are not poisonous, and they are not harmful
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 97r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/97r/images/0 Accessed 4 November 2025.

Alonso de Molina: 

tlalacatl. escarauajo grande y bermejo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 123v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Molina says this is a russet-colored beetle. (See above. English translation here by SW.)

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
See also: 
tlalli.