Back T. C. Narendran German ടി.സി. നരേന്ദ്രൻ Malayalam T. C. Narendran Dutch Нарендран, Текке Куруппате Russian T.C. Narendran Swedish தீ. கு. நரேந்திரன் Tamil
Thekke Curuppath Narendran (24 February 1944 – 31 December 2013; middle name sometimes written Kuruppath) was an Indian entomologist specializing in the systematics of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera).
Narendran received a Janakiammal National Award for Taxonomy (2004)[1] 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.[2]
- ^ National Award for Best Taxonomist retrieved 12 April 2010[usurped]
- ^ "Taxonomist Narendran passes away". The Hindu. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 10 February 2019.