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Please help me identify this bug !!!
hi there !! I’ve caught two bugs here but i can’t find their family name , genus, order and scientific name … i came across your website today and was wondering whether you can help me identify them ?? thanks alot .. !!! sorry i forgot to tell you that im writing from kuala lumpur , malaysia. i caught the stick-like insect near a pond somewhere around my house. it camouflages itself n looks like a grass. while the other bug was caught from a place call genting highlands. i found it in a carpark near a hotel. i think it came from the forest somewhere near the hotel. thanks alot. your help is very much appreciated. if you cant identify them then its ok.
angeline

Hi Angeline,
We checked with both Eric Eaton and Paul who has assisted us with grasshoppers before. Both agree your grasshopper is a Slant-Faced Grasshopper. Paul says: “I can’t tell you the genus or species for this hopper, but it’s definitely in Acrididae, the short horned grasshopper family, and in the subfamily Gomphocerinae, the slant faced grasshoppers. That’s the best I can do.”

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