159. Ixodes myotomys Clifford & Hoogstraal, 1970 .

Afrotropical: 1) South Africa (Walker 1991, Kolonin 2009).

Horak et al. (2018) excluded Ixodes myotomys in their review of the Ixodidae of southern Africa, stating that only one female specimen had been collected from a rat nest (genus Myotomys). However, that nest was found in Northern Cape Province, South Africa.