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Proper noun

Homo troglodytes m

1. (obsolete) A species of supposed cave-dwelling men, now thought to be legendary, sometimes identified with the orang utan.
   • 1827, Wilhelm Hauff, Märchen-Almanach. Novellen: Othello, Die Sängerin. Die letzten Ritter von Marienburg

     Das ist ja ein Affe, der Homo Troglodytes Linnaei; ich gebe sogleich sechs Taler für ihn, wenn Sie mir ihn ablaffen, und balge ihn aus für mein Kabinett.

   • 1995, Anderson, Karen L, Sociology : a Critical Introduction, Nelson Canada (ISBN 9780176035396)

     Homo troglodytes was reputed to live in forests, to be nocturnal, and to communicate only in hisses

2. (neologism) An alternative name for Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee.
   • 2013, Jim E Murphy, Confessions of a ChimpManZee, Portraits of Earth Press

     There were now three known species of humans on the planet: Homo sapiens, Homo troglodytes, and Homo paniscus.

   • 2014, Russell H. Tuttle, Apes and Human Evolution, Harvard University Press (ISBN 9780674073166), page 27

     Their scheme mirrors that of Diamond, who proposed that, as a third chimpanzee, Homo sapiens is congeneric with Homo troglodytes and Homo paniscus.