Response to selected ecological parameters by Leptus hringuri Haitlinger, 2000 larvae (Trombidiformes: Erythraeidae) parasitizing treehoppers (Hemiptera: Membracidae) from Bolivia on two host-plant species

Larvae of Leptus hringuri parasitizing families (adult female + offspring) of the treehopper Alchisme grossa on two host-plants, Brugmansia suaveolens (BS) and Solanum ursinum (SU), were studied. The effect of microenvironmental abiotic conditions (luminosity, temperature and relative humidity) and biotic conditions (distance from the soil to a treehopper host and host-plant phenological stage) on this tritrophic interaction was examined....