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tlalchapolin.

Headword: 
tlalchapolin.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of locust that is found everywhere; also called the ixpopoyochapolin ("blind locust"), because it is "stupid;" it will bear its young on the road, not taking heed if someone might step or jump on it
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 102v, Sahagún, Bernardino de. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Transcribed and translated with notes by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble. 2nd rev. ed. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research / University of Utah Press, 1950–82. Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/102v Accessed 7 November 2025.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Food, Eating, Cooking
See also: 
chapolin.
tlalli.
ixpopoyoti.