Yang et al. (2008) described a distinctive, small braconine wasp, Platybracon sinicus, from China as a new genus and new species. They discussed similarities with other braconine genera and to which genus it would belong to when using the only available key to the Braconinae (Quicke, 1987). However, they failed to notice that their genus name Platybracon would be a junior homonym of Platybracon...

A review of the Afrotropical species genus Sculptolobus Yang, van Achterberg & Chen, 2008 is presented. One species, S. leleji sp. nov. , and one subspecies, lembaensis harteni ssp. are described. New combinations proposed for bipustulatus (Szépligeti, 1913), comb. (Cameron, 1912), somnialis suavis 1918), subellipticus (Granger, 1949), Lectotypes designated suavis. For all descriptions ...