Ixodes cornutus Lotozky, 1956

Ixodes cornutus Lototsky, 1956: 27 .

Ixodes rugicollis Schulze & Schlottke: Morel and Aubert 1975: 99.

Recorded hosts.

Mammalia: Mustela erminea Linnaeus (stoat) (Filippova 1977).

Recorded locations

(Fig. 23). Tajikistan: Peter the First Range, the source of the Divansu River, close to the Oshanin glacier (Filippova 1977).

Ecology and other information.

Ixodes cornutus is a species described from two identical females (Lotozky 1956) that were found in Tajikistan, in the eastern part of Peter the First Range, by the source of the Divansu River (the basin of the Surkhob River), near the Oshanin glacier, on a stoat.

The type specimen of I. cornutus is deposited at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Lotozky 1956: 27). Lectotype: female; 38 [Tajikistan, the Peter the First Mt. Range], the source of the Divansu River, the ancient moraine of the Oshanin glacier, Mustela erminea, ad.; male; 4. VII. 1954; AL I 845. Description – Filippova 1977: 178 (female; male, nymph, larva unknown) (Filippova 2008).