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Chortophaga viridifasciata viridifasciata
Cutest little grasshopper I've ever seen. Dead leaf mimic. Missing right leg.
I'm very glad this spotting could help, drpalombella!! I'll have to check out your spotting!
I just uploaded a spotting of this one. It took me quite a while to figure it out. Seeing that yours looks almost identical to mine definitely bolsters my ID.
Nice spotting! Mine doesn't have the clarity that your photo has but I would say these look pretty close:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/139...
Another nymph from bugguide.net:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/619448/bgi...
They come in green as well:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/703115/bgi...
The species page since the subspecies page doesn't have much info:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/16145
No idea what kind of grasshopper it is, but it looks like a third of forth instar nymph.