1991

• Lourenço, W.R. 1991. Biogéographie évolutive, écologie et les stratégies biodémographiques chez les scorpions néotropicaux. Compte Rendus de la Société de Biogéographie 67(4): 171–190.

2000

• Lourenço, W.R. & Monod, L. 2000. Description of a new genus and species of scorpion (Bothriuridae) from Brazil. Ekológia 19(supplement 3): 145–152. PDF. Reference page. 

2002

• Lourenço, W.R. 2002. Considérations sur les modèles de distribution et différentiation du genre Buthus Leach, 1815, avec la description d’une nouavelle espèce des montagnes du Tassili des Ajjer Algérie (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Biogeographica 78(3): 109–127.

2003

• Lourenço, W.R. 2003. Compléments à la faune de scorpions (Arachnida) de l’Afrique du Nord, avec des considérations sur le genre Buthus Leach, 1815. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 110(4): 875–912.

2005

• Lourenço, W.R. 2005a. Description of three new species of scorpion from Sudan. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 36: 21–28.
• Lourenço, W.R. 2005b. Description of a new scorpion species of the genus Buthus Leach, 1815 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) from Guinea and Senegal in Western Africa. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg 14(171): 229–236.
• Lourenço, W.R. 2005c. A new species of the genus Buthus Leach, 1815 (Scorpiones, Buthidae) from Senegal and Niger in Western Africa. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg 14(172): 245–251.

2008

• Lourenço, W.R. 2008. About the presence of the genus Buthus Leach, 1815 in the Arabian Peninsula and description of a new species (Scorpiones, Buthidae). Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg 15(179): 45–52.

2009

• Lourenço, W.R., Ythier, E. & Leguin, E.-A. 2009. A new species of Androctonus Ehrenberg, 1828 from Morocco (Scorpiones: Buthidae). Euscorpius 89: 1–8. PDF. Reference page. 
• Lourenço, W.R. 2009. Reanalysis of the genus Scorpio Linnaeus 1758 in Sub-Saharan Africa and description of one new species from Cameroon (Scorpiones, Scorpionidae). Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg 15(181): 99–113.

2010

• Lourenço, W.R., Sun, D. & Zhu, M.S. 2010. Razianus xinjianganus sp. nov.: A new record genus and new species of (Scorpiones, Buthidae) from China. Journal of Hebei University (Natural Science Edition) 30(3) : 307–318.Reference page. 

2011

• Yağmur, E.A., Koç, H. & Lourenço, W.R. 2011. A new species of Buthus Leach, 1815 from Cyprus (Scorpiones, Buthidae). ZooKeys 115: 27–38. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.115.1135 . Reference page. 

2012

• Lourenço, W.R., Duhem, B. & Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. 2012. Scorpions from Ennedi, Kapka and Tibesti, the mountains of Chad, with descriptions of nine new species (Scorpiones: Buthidae, Scorpionidae). Arthropoda selecta 21(4): 307–338. DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.21.4.04 . Reference page. 

2016

• Lourenço, W.R. 2016. A preliminary synopsis on amber scorpions with special reference to Burmite species: an extraordinary development of our knowledge in only 20 years. ZooKeys 600: 75–87. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.600.8913 . Reference page. 

2017

• Lourenço, W.R. 2017. A new species of Physoctonus Mello-Leitão, 1934 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from the ‘Campos formations’ of southern Amazonia. ZooKeys 711: 67—80. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.711.20187 . Reference page. 

• Ythier, E. & Lourenço, W.R. 2017. The geographical patterns of distribution of the genus Teuthraustes Simon, 1878 in Ecuador and description of three new species (Scorpiones, Chactidae). ZooKeys 721: 45–63. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.721.21529 . Reference page. 

2018

• Lourenço, W.R. & Košulič, O. 2018. A new remarkable species of Alloscorpiops Vachon, 1980 from Myanmar (Burma) (Scorpiones, Scorpiopidae). ZooKeys 775: 47–58. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.775.24248 Reference page.