acachapolin.

the "arrow" grasshopper; these insects are said to fly fast and straight like an arrow (saeta in Spanish); this explains the start of the name (aca-), from acatl (reed), out of which which an arrow shaft was often made
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 102r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/102r/images/0 Accessed 7 November 2025.