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tetatamachiuhqui.

Headword: 
tetatamachiuhqui.
Principal English Translation: 

a worm that is a "measurer" (the image and description make it appear that this is an inch worm)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 103v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/103v/images/0 Accessed 7 November 2025. See also folio 104r.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Measurements, Quantities
See also: 
tamachihua.