Distributions of the scorpion species Androctonus amoreuxi (Audouin, 1826), Buthacus leptochelys (Ehrenberg, 1829), Compsobuthus werneri (Birula, 1908) Leiurus quinquestriatus (Ehrenberg, 1829), Orthochirus olivaceus (Karsch, 1881) and Parabuthus abyssinicus (Pocock, 1901) (all Buthidae) in the Republic of Sudan based on present data and the published literature. As in Fig. 2, A. amoreuxi, L. quinquestriatus and P. abyssinicus are regarded as medically significant.