Sorry about often moving your images to family or subfamily, but remember that BugGuide is all volunteer effort. There aren't too many people here who know their Orthoptera well, and our main grasshopper expert David Ferguson doesn't come on too often, although he eventually will get to every unidentified photo. He's also more likely to look among Orthoptera itself, so leaving a photo in ID request probably won't help you get an ID faster. I know the eastern U.S. fauna pretty well but am still working on learning the western fauna - they're much more confusing! I move a lot of images of western hoppers to subfamilies because that's the lowest level I am confident at placing them. I think the consensus here on BugGuide is to always move images to the lowest level you're confident with - which makes sense to me, if I know something is in a certain subfamily, why bother leaving it at order or ID request?

Sorry for the wall of text (didn't realize how much I'd written!), but remember - every photo will eventually get ID'd to the fullest extent possible. It simply takes more time for some images than others. One example is this image, which took almost 8 years to get identified! Of course this is extreme.

I hope you don't take any offense from this, just wanted to explain my decisions and moves.

That all being said, I am pretty sure this hopper is Arphia conspersa. Will try to double check later, I don't have my books with me at the moment.

Moved from ID Request.