Jesús García Jiménez

• Doctorate
• Catedrático investigador at Instituto Tecnológico de Cd. Victoria

Neottiella albocincta (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Sacc., N. rutilans (Fr.) Dennis, Octospora maireana (Seaver) Yei Z. Wang, and O. texensis Benkert are reported for the first time from Mexico. These species, all belonging to the family Pyronemataceae, have close relationships with several species of mosses such as those in the genera Archidium Brid., Atr...

Cyanoboletus abieticola is described as a new species to science. This species is characterized by the viscid pileus, cylindric to bacilliform basidiospores ([14.1] 16.2 ± 1.1 [17.5] × [5] 5.5 ± 0.3 [5.9] µm, Q [2.8] 3.0 ± 0.1 [3.2]), and its gregarious habit in mixed coniferous forests dominated by Abies religiosa or A. guatemalensis. Photographs,...

Mattirolomyces mexicanus Kovács, Trappe & Alsheikh is recorded for the first time from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, based on morphological and molecular data. This species is characterized by the whitish membranous peridium with inflate hyphae over 100 µm in diameter, pale gleba, subreticulat-ed ascospores of 15–21 µm, and the putative association...

Contribución al conocimiento de Lepidoptera de Tamaulipas

En las últimas décadas diferentes autores han estimado la diversidad de hongos en el planeta en 1.5 millones de especies. Lo anterior se basa principalmente en la proporción de hongos asociados a las especies de plantas en zonas templadas y tropicales de planeta, y a los estudios micológicos de las islas británicas (como algunas de las áreas mejor...

Boletes are one of the most common groups of fungi in temperate, subtropical, and tropical ecosystems. In Mexico, the northern region has mainly been explored in terms of bolete diversity. This study describes a new genus and seven new species based on macromorphological, micromorphological, molecular, phylogenetic, and ecological data. Garcileccin...

Citation: Ayala-Vásquez, O.; Martínez-Reyes, M.; Pérez-Moreno, J.; Martínez-González, C.R.; Pinzón, J.P.; de la Fuente, J.I.; Castro-Rivera, R.; García-Jiménez, J.; Balbuena-Carrasco, S.; Ramírez-Carbajal, E.; et al. Five New Species of Aureoboletus and Chalciporus (Boletaceae, Boletales) and Their Ethnomycological Aspects. Abstract: Among Boletale...

The tropical montane cloud forest in Mexico is the most diverse and threatened ecosystem. Mexican macrofungi numbers more than 1408 species. This study described four new species of Agaricomycetes (Bondarzewia, Gymnopilus, Serpula, Sparassis) based on molecular and morphological characteristics. Our results support that Mexico is among the most bio...

The genus Pseudoboletus includes parasitic fungi and is well known in temperate zones. In this paper, we present the first Mexican collections of this genus. Two specimens were collected in a field expedition in a tropical montane cloud forest on the San Martín Tuxtla volcano, Veracruz, Mexico, resulting in a new species of Pseudoboletus, which gro...

Two new species of Trichoglossum are described from south Mexico based on morphological and molecular evidence. Trichoglossum caespitosum is characterized by the caespitose ascomata, rough and coiled paraphy-ses and the ascospores with 9-11 septa. Trichoglossum tropicale is characterized by the capitate ascomata, clavate and straight paraphyses and...

Hydnobolites oaxacanus is described using molecular and morphological data. This new species is characterized by the whitish ascomata with orange spots, grey gleba, and 4-spored asci with ascospores of 17–45 × 15–20 µm. The new species differs from other American Hydnobolites such as H. californicum and H. cerebriformis by the number of ascospores...

Abstract: Four strains of the ectomycorrhizal Boletus luridellus were used to inoculate Quercus fusi- formis seedlings in pots in order to compare growth response effectiveness. Boletus luridellus is an edible fungus that forms ectomycorrhiza with Quercus fusiformis and other oak species in temperate forest in northeastern México. The effects of in...

The present study describes Hemiaustroboletus gen. nov. in the subfamily Austroboletoideae (Boletaceae). Hemiaustroboletus is supported by morphological and molecular data using LSU and RPB2 regions. Additionally, its geographic distribution and intraspecific variation were inferred using ITS sequences. The genus is characterised by pileate-stipita...

Antecedentes y Objetivos: Trichophaeopsis pertenece a la familia Pyronemataceae (Pezizales, Ascomycota). Se caracteriza por apotecios diminutos de menos de 5 mm de diámetro con setas color marrón obscuro, ascas operculadas-octosporadas y ascosporas lisas o verrugosas. Sus especies son ectomicorrizógenas con distribución en zonas templadas. El prese...

To document sequestrate fungal diversity in American tropical regions, we performed a series of field surveys in southeastern Mexico and discovered two new species in the phalloid genus Restingomyces (Trappeaceae, Phallales). Here, we describe them based on morphological and phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) s...

Tuber mixtecorum is described as a new species from Mexico based on morphological and molecular evidence. This species belongs to the Maculatum clade and is characterized by its subtomentose to glabrous, whitish to pale brown peridium, dark brown gleba, ellipsoid reticulate-alveolate ascospores (15–33.9 × 11.3–23.3 µm), and the putative mycorrhizal...

According to records available in the literature, 380 species of fungi and fungus-like organisms are known for the state of Quintana Roo on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. We carried out mycological surveys in this state, following the classical methods for collecting, describing, and curating macrofungi. As a result of our research, 21 species ar...

According to records available in the literature, 380 species of fungi and fungus-like organisms are known for the state of Quintana Roo on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. We carried out mycological surveys in this state, following the classical methods for collecting, describing, and curating macrofungi. As a result of our research, 21 species ar...

Volvariella cubensis (Murrill) Shaffer is distinguished by the dark-gray and fibrillose pileus, pinkish free gills and the thick, brownish volva. This species is described and illustrated from the state of Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico and constitutes the first record for the country, as well as the northernmost occurrence of V. cubensis in Ame...

Neoscelis hexakrotes new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Goliathini) is described from Guerrero, Mexico. Keys to identify male and female Neoscelis Schoch species and new distribution records for Neoscelis dohrni (Westwood) are provided.

A new species of Agave L. (Asparagaceae: Agavoideae), A. lexii García-Morales, García-Jiménez & Iamonico, from Tamaulipas (northeastern Mexico) is described and illustrated. The new species is morphologically similar to A. tenuifolia Zamudio & E. Sanchez and A. striata Zucc. Agave lexii differs from A. tenuifolia and A. striata in leaf arrangement,...

In this paper, Aureoboletus auriflammeus (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) G. Wu & Zhu L. Yang, A. innixus (Frost) Halling, A.R. Bessette & Bessette and A. roxanae (Frost) Klofac are described as new records from Mexico. These species are distributed in temperate montane cloud forest and mixed forests and may grow associated forming mycorrhizas with Fagus gran...

Stephanospora mayana is presented as a new species from the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. This species is distinguished by the yellowish pileus, basidiospores with a small corona (4-6 × 1-2.5 µm), and variable size (8.0-17.0 × 6.0-11.0), thin pileus (21-40 µm) and the ecological association to lowland forest with Haematoxylum campechianum, Gymnopodium...

ABSTRACT Background: Boletales are studied widely in temperate forest, but in tropical forest are little known. Objective: The aim of this paper is to increase the knowledge of tropical Boletales from Mexico. Methods: Mycological explorations were carried out between 2014 and 2017 in Quintana Roo state. All the specimens were herborized and deposit...

Se presenta el primer registro de Boletus luridellus (Boletaceae, Boletineae) para los estados de Nuevo León y Tamaulipas, México. Se identificó la especie y se obtuvieron cultivos puros in vitro, se midió el crecimiento en dos medios de cultivo, se obtuvo la síntesis de micorrizas en plántulas de Quercus fusiformis y se regristra por primera vez l...

This study documents the first register of Boletus luridellus (family Boletaceae) in the states of Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. Pure cultures were obtained in vitro; synthesis of mycorrhizae was achieved with Quercus fusiformis, and fruiting bodies were produced under greenhouse conditions for the first time. This species forms mycorrhizae with Querc...

Bachelor Thesis at FCB UANL, México

Ten species of Boletaceae with ornamented basidiospores are described and illustrated from temperate forests in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Boletellus ananiceps is recorded for the first time in Mexico, and Austroboletus gracilis, Boletellus flocculosipes, B. chrysenteroides, B. pseudochrysenteroides and Heimioporus ivoryi are first records from O...

Background: Fungi have multiple uses in temperate areas of México, but an important decrease in the traditional knowledge of uses and customs of mushrooms becomes a fundamental issue for fungi conservation. However, only few studies quantify the traditional ethnomycological knowledge in México, and this study is the first quantitative report for Q...

A new subspecies of Prepona brooksiana G. & S. is described and named, which is the most northerly occurrence of all geographical races of this taxon, occurring on the slope of the Gulf of Mexico, in the most boreal portion of the cloud forest. We describe the population variation of the characters that diagnose it and mention aspects of its behavi...

RESUMEN. Se realizó un estudio sobre diversidad de mariposas en dos condiciones de selva baja espinosa caducifolia, en el ANP Altas Cumbres, Tamaulipas, México. Se establecieron dos transectos permanentes, uno por cada condición. El muestreo se realizó de manera mensual en cada sitio mediante red entomológica aérea, durante diciembre del 2015 a nov...

Antecedentes y Objetivos: El orden Hypocreales se distribuye ampliamente en las regiones templadas y tropicales del mundo. Se han registrado 17 especies en el bosque mesófilo de montaña para México. El objetivo de este estudio es ampliar el conocimiento taxonómico de las especies de Hypocreales en México y en particular de la Sierra Alta Hidalguens...

As part of ongoing studies on Magnolia sect. Macrophylla in North America (Mexico), unusual populations from the humid forests of Sierra Madre Oriental (central western Tamaulipas State) were found. They are here formalized as a new species, M. alejandrae. Its morphology, ecology, and conservation status are provided. A morphological comparison wit...

In the present work, 633 species of macrofungi were studied from State of Queretaro, México. 70 species belongs to Myxogastria in the Kingdom Protozoa, and 1 species to Glomeromycota, 50 to Ascomycota and 512 to basidiomycota in the kingdom Fungi. Of the 633 species of microfungi, 238 are new records to the state of Queretaro.

RESUMEN. El presente estudio se desarrolló en la Sierra de San Carlos, Tamaulipas. El objetivo fue determinar la fauna de Papilionidae presente en la zona, además de analizar la variación altitudinal y estacional, así como la evaluación de criterios de residencialidad del grupo. Se realizaron 36 muestreos, donde se registraron 390 ejemplares distri...

We registered for first time the use of Fistulinella wolfeana as an edible species in the Otomi communities of Tesquedó, Xajay and Tenasdá, in Amealco de Bonfil, Querétaro, México, which is part of the natural resources used during the rainy season. In addition, this species is widely distributed in the Volcanic Transmexican Belt, and it has the po...

RESUMEN. El presente estudio se desarrolló en el Cerro Bufa el Diente, municipio de San Carlos, Tamaulipas. El objetivo fue determinar la fauna de Pieridae presente en la zona, además de analizar la variación altitudinal y estacional del grupo. Se realizaron 36 muestreos, donde se registraron 1,268 ejemplares distribuidos en 24 especies y 14 género...

In the present study are recorded a total of 18 families, 38 genera, 91 species and eight varieties of lycophytes and monilophytes. The family Pteridaceae is the most representative with (13) genera and (36) species, being the genus Cheilanthes the best represented, also recorded for first time 23 taxa for the state of Tamaulipas. We collected Scha...

RESUMEN. El presente estudio se desarrolló en el Cerro Bufa el Diente, municipio de San Carlos, Tamaulipas. El objetivo fue determinar la fauna de Pieridae presente en la zona, además de analizar la variación altitudinal y estacional del grupo. Se realizaron 36 muestreos, donde se registraron 1,268 ejemplares distribuidos en 24 especies y 14 género...

In the present work, about 2000 specimens of macrofungicollected by the authors during 25 years of survey in the state of Tamaulipas were reviewed. They come from 39 localities at 10 municipalities with tropical and temperate oak forerst. The materials are deposited at the ITCV and ENCB herbaria. Three hundred and sixty-three species and one variet...

Se presenta una lista preliminar con un registro de 205 especies de Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) para Tamaulipas.

El Parque Nacional Cumbres de Monterrey cuenta con una superficie total de 177,395.98 hectáreas y se encuentra ubicado en ocho municipios de estado de Nuevo León siendo estos Allende, García, Montemorelos, Monterrey, Rayones, Santa Catarina, Santiago y San Pedro Garza García (DOF, 2000). Este parque es un área natural protegida y proporciona import...

Two new species of the genus Boletus collected in a Quercus Forest from Nuevo León and Tamaulipas states, Mexico, are described and illustrated for the first time for science: Boletus paulae and B. singeri. Boletus paulae belongs to the sect. Luridi and B. singeri to the sect. Subpruinosi of the genus Boletus. Both species are considered mycorrhiza...

We describe Elaphomyces verruculosus as new species from eastern North America, ranging from Quebec, Canada south along the eastern USA and along the Gulf Coast to northeastern México. E. verruculosus is similar in overall morphology to E. granulatus of Europe In addition we re-describe E. appalachiensis and report it as occurring in Florida, Iowa,...

We present records of the first specimens of the collared anteater (Tamandua mexicana) from Tamaulipas, Mexico. We document the northernmost locality of this Neotropical species, extending the known geographical distribution into northeastern Mexico. RESUMEN—Presentamos los registros de los primeros especímenes del oso hormiguero (Tamandua mexicana...

The species of Ramaria are ecologically and economically important, however, studies on this genus are very scarce in México. Due to this, a taxonomic study on this taxon was performed. Three new Ramaria spp. in the subgenus Laeticolora are described from oak dominated forests of central Mexico: R. persicina is recognized by its pink to pinkish ora...

The species of Ramaria are ecologically and economically important, however, studies on this genus are very scarce in México. Due to this, a taxonomic study on this taxon was performed. Three new Ramaria spp. in the subgenus Laeticolora are described from oak dominated forests of central Mexico: R. persicina is recognized by its pink to pinkish ora...

A checklist with 267 species of fungi, mainly macromycetes, including lichens, some microscopic fungi and one Myxomycota, from the forest La Primavera is presented. Forty-eight are new records for the region and one of them for the State of Jalisco. From the total number of species, 34 are Ascomycota, 233 Basidiomycota and one is Myxomycota. Agaric...

A checklist with 267 species of fungi, mainly macromycetes, including lichens, some microscopic fungi and one Myxomycota, from the forest La Primavera is presented. Forty-eight are new records for the region and one of them for the State of Jalisco. From the total number of species, 34 are Ascomycota, 233 Basidiomycota and one is Myxomycota. Agaric...

Melanogaster minysporus is described as a new species from northern Mexico (Nuevo Leon). It is distinctive in the genus in having a bright yellow peridium that stains reddish where bruised in fresh and small spores.

Three new species of Hysterangium (H. quercicola, H. latisporum, and H. velatisporum) are described from northern Mexico. In addition, one previously described Hysterangium species (H. aureum) is recorded for the first time from Mexico.

Melanogaster minysporus is described as a new species from northern Mexico (Nuevo Leon). It is distinctive in the genus in having a bright yellow peridium that stains reddish where bruised in fresh and small spores.

A list of 434 taxa of macromycetes is presented from three municipalities of the Biosphere Reserve El Cielo. Basidiomycetes are the most abundat group with 396 taxa, followed by Ascomycetes with 36 taxa, and Zygomycetes with 2 taxa. A total of 76 grow only in tropical forests and 314 are registered from Montain Cloud Forest. Also 65 species from th...

M éxico es un país destacado por su alta diversidad biológica, 1,2 determinada en gran parte por su ubicación geográfica y por la convergencia de las regiones florísticas holártica y neotropical y por su compleja orografía. Otras consideraciones al respecto se re-lacionan con el pasado geológico, que ha permiti-do, a través de distintos procesos, l...

Explorations in the mountains of Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Durango, and Tamaulipas from 1980 to 1985 yielded 24 species of hypogeous fungi, one being Rhizopogon guzmanii sp. nov. and 17 being first reports from Mexico. Twelve genera are represented: Glomus (Zygomycotina); Elaphomyces, Genea, Hydnobolites, Pachyphloeus, and Tuber (Ascomycotina); Gautier...

Explorations in the mountains of Nuevo León, Coahuila, Durango, and Tamaulipas from 1980 to 1985 yielded 24 species of hypogeous fungi, one being Rhizopogon guzmanii sp. nov. and 17 being first reports from México. Twelve genera are represented: Glomus (Zygomycotina); Elaphomyces, Genea, Hydnobolites, Pachyphloeus, and Tuber (Ascomycotina); Gautier...