T. C. Narendran

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) 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. Provided by Wikipedia