Abiotic and cultivar effects on the incidence of pest arthropods in 16 citrus scion varieties grafted on two rootstocks

visually inspecting five leaf buds or five leaves or five fruits, or combination of those, in two of six randomly sampled trees, in each one of three 210 m 2 plots established for each cultivar, for a total of 192 trees in each sampling. Percentages of presence of each arthropod taxon on each tree among cultivars were compared and correlations between these percentages and the climatic factors temperature, relative humidity, and rainfall recorded on a daily basis, were calculated. Among the three citrus types, mandarins had the greatest presence of aphids; oranges had the greatest presence of whiteflies, leafminers and Diaphorina citri , and limes-lemons had the greatest presence of mites. Presence of mites, aphids, D. citri and leafminer were positively correlated to relative humidity. Among mandarin varieties aphids had higher percentage of presence on Oneco and Owari Satsuma and among orange varieties Pineapple had a higher presence of it than the other varieties in study. Leaf miner had higher presence on Orange Sweet variety grafted on SxE rootstock than on any other orange cultivar.