T. C. Narendran


Thekke Curuppath Narendran was an Indian entomologist specializing in the systematics of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea.
Narendran received a Janakiammal National Award for Taxonomy and was a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore and the Indian Entomology Academy, Chennai.
Narendran's major publications include monographs on the Oriental Chalcididae, Torymidae & Eurytomidae of Indian Subcontinent and Indo-Australian Ormyridae - and some 300 research papers in various scientific journals describing 700 new species and over 50 new genera. Narendran mentored a number of taxonomists at the Calicut University where he worked.
Narendran died on 31 December 2013, aged 69, of a heart attack.

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