Ixodes myotomys Clifford & Hoogstraal, 1970

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Nava, Santiago & Robbins, Richard G., 2023, Geographic distribution of the hard ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of the world by countries and territories, Zootaxa 5251 (1), pp. 1-274 : 25

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.