T. C. Narendran
Introduction '''Thekke Curuppathe Narendran''' (24 February 1944 – 31 December 2013; middle name sometimes written '''Kuruppathe''') was an Indian entomologist specializing in the systematics of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera).uprightNarendran received a Janakiammal National Award for Taxonomy (2004) and was a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore (IASc) and the Indian Entomology Academy, Chennai.His major publications include monographs on the Oriental Chalcididae (1989), Torymidae & Eurytomidae of Indian Subcontinent (1994) and Indo-Australian Ormyridae (1999) - 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.He died of a heart attack on 31 December 2013, aged 69.
Key publications *  1974.Oriental Brachymeria. Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala, India. *  1989.Oriental Chalcididae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Zoological Monograph. Department of Zoology, University of Calicut, Kerala, India. 441pp. *  1994. ''Torymidae and Eurytomidae of Indian subcontinent''. University of Calicut, Kerala, India. 500pp. *  1999. ''Indo-Australian Ormyridae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)''. Privately published. iii + 227 pp. *  2007.Indian Chalcidoid Parasitoids of the Tetrastichinae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae). Occasional Paper No. 272, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. vi + 390pp.
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References *  TCN Trust for Animal Taxonomy