Biography

Tarakad Vaidyanatha (Vythinatha) Ramakrishna Ayyar, Indian entomologist (Malabar July 1880 – 13 February 1952)

With M.S. Kylasam. A new disease of cardamom (Elatteria cardamoni) apparently due to insect damage in South India. Bull. Entomol. Research 26(3):359-61, 1935

DESCRIBED NEW TAXA

Thysanoptera

Genera

Chiridothrips 1939 with Margabandhu

Euryaplothrips 1931 with Margabandhu  

Gnomonothrips 1939 with Margabandhu 

Mallothrips 1928

Megaphysothrips 1939 with Margabandhu 

Neocorynothrips 1939 with Margabandhu

Thilakothrips 1928

Veerabahuthrips 1932

Species

55

Hymenoptera

Eridontomeroidella 1920

Eutropobracon 1928

Iphioilta 1928

HONORS (Thysanoptera)

Ayyaria Karny 1926

Ayyarothrips Ananthakrishnan 1972

Ramakrishnaiella Karny 1925 

LINKS

http://entosym2014.zohosites.com/files/Dr.%20Ayyar.pdf (bibliography)