P.S. Nathan

P. S. Nathan, P. Susai Nathan or P. Susainathan (18 April 1891 – 17 March 1976) was an Indian naturalist, entomologist and a natural history specimen collector and dealer. His natural history business was continued by his daughter-in-law Theresa Rajabai Susai Nathan and still later by her daughter-in-law Nellie J.P. Nathan. A number of species are named after the collections made by him and his family.[1]

Life and work

Nathan came from Kurumbagaram, Nedungadu, near Karaikal. The initial "P." stands for his father's name Prabalanathan, although some sources note it incorrectly as "Peter". He collected insects while still in school and became a government entomologist and later an entomological assistant at the Coimbatore Agricultural College (now the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University). He then worked at Basra, Iraq under the British as a port officer working in quarantine service. He retired voluntarily in 1929 to become a professional insect collector and natural history dealer. He was elected Fellow of the Entomological Society in 1919.[2] Although he specialized mainly in insects he also sold mollusc shells across Europe and North America and numerous species have been described on the basis of specimens collected by him, several named after him, including:[3]

  • Nathanella Demoulin, 1955. (Ephemeroptera)
  • Petersula nathani Sivaramakrishnan & Hubbard, 1984[4] (Ephemeroptera)
  • Ephemera nathani Hubbard, 1982[5] (Ephemeroptera)
  • Bolivaritettix nathani Wagan & Kevan, 1992 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae)[6]
  • Diplatys nathani Hincks, 1960. (Dermaptera)[7]
  • Gonolabidura nathani Brindle, 1965. (Dermaptera)
  • Timmomenus nathani Srivastava, 1969 (Dermaptera: Forficulidae)[8]
  • Dysaulophthalma nathani Stiewe, 2009[9] (Mantodea: Tarachodidae)
  • Calamothespis nathani Roy & Stiewe, 2016 (Mantodea) [from Zambia, 27 Dec 1970][10]
  • Aphelocheirus nathani La Rivers, 1971 (Heteroptera: Naucoridae)[11]
  • Onychomesa susainathani Wygodzinsky, 1966 (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)[12]
  • Stenolemus susainathani Wygodzinsky, 1966 (Heteroptera: Reduviidae)[13]
  • Scaphidium nathani Löbl, 1971. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)[14]
  • Autoserica nathani Frey, 1972[15] (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
  • Myllocerus susainathani Nathan, 1992 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)[16]
  • Notosacantha nathani Borowiec & Takizawa, 1991 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)[17]
  • Lycostomus nathani Kazantsev, 2018 (Coleoptera: Lycidae)[18]
  • Nosodendron nathani Háva, 2020[19] (Coleoptera: Nosodendridae, named after T.R.S. Nathan)
  • Pachynomia nathani Pauly, 2009 (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)[20]
  • Maynenomia nathani Pauly, 2009 (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)[20]
  • Lasioglossum (Ipomalictus) nathanae Pauly, 2001 (Hymenoptera: Halictidae, named after Mrs. T.R.S. Nathan)[21]
  • Entomognathus nathani Leclercq, 1963 (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae)
  • Kristotomus nathani Mason, 1962 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)[22]
  • Teucholabis (Teucholabis) susainathani Alexander, 1950 (Diptera: Tipuloidea)
  • Boettcherisca nathani Lopes, 1961[23] (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)
  • Sarcophaga (Sarcosolomonia) susainathani Pape, 1996 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)
  • Sarcosolomonia (Parkerimyia) nathani Lopes & Kano, 1969 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)[24]
  • Laphria nathani Joseph & Parui, 1981 (Diptera: Asilidae, after T.R.S. Nathan)[25]
  • Stenopogon nathani Joseph & Parui, 1976 (Diptera: Asilidae)[26]
  • Haematopota nathani Stone & Philip, 1974 (Diptera: Tabanidae)
  • Chersonesometrus nathanorum Prendini & Loria, 2020 (Arachnida: Scorpiones, after P.S. and T.R.S. Nathan)[27]

Alexander named a cranefly Styringomyia susilae after his then infant daughter.[28] After his retirement from active collecting in 1969, his daughter-in-law Theresa Rajabai Susai Nathan (T.R.S. Nathan was married to S.J. Selva Nathan at the Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore) continued the natural history specimen business. The tiger beetle Cicindela nathanae is named after her but not all species described after her have been correctly formed with the feminine form.[29] In 1993 T.R.S. Nathan handed the collecting business to her daughter-in-law Nellie J.P. Nathan and a nephew of T.R.S. Nathan, S.A. Surender also collected specimens. The tiger beetle species Jansenia nathanorum was named for the Nathan family by Fabio Cassola and Karl Werner in 2003.[30] A specimen collected in 1970 indicates that P.S. Nathan collected briefly in Zambia.

Publications

References
  1. Baker, Donald Burton (2002). "On Palaearctic and Oriental species of the genera Pseudapis W.F. Kirby, 1900, and Nomiapis Cockerell, 1919 (Hymenoptera, Halictidae, Nomiinae)". Beiträge zur Entomologie. 52: 1–83. doi:10.21248/contrib.entomol.52.1.1-83.
  2. "List of Fellows of the Entomological Society of London". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 71 (1–2): ix–xxxii. 2009. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1923.tb03322.x.
  3. Alexander, Charles P. (1960). "New exotic crane-flies (Tipulidae: Diptera): Part II". Entomological News. 61: 237–243.
  4. Sivaramakrishnan, K.G.; Hubbard, Michael D. (1984). "A new species of Petersula from southern India (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae)" (PDF). International Journal of Entomology. 26 (3): 204–205.
  5. Hubbard, Michael D. (1982). "Two new species of Ephemera from South India (Ephemeroptera: Ephemeridae)" (PDF). Pacific Insects. 24 (2): 192–195.
  6. Wagan, M. S.; Kevan, D. K. McE. (1992). "Studies on some Tetrigidae (Orthoptera) from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka". Tropical Zoology. 5 (2): 167–194. doi:10.1080/03946975.1992.10539191.
  7. Miles, Claire (2015-10-01). "The earwig collection (Dermaptera) of the Manchester Museum, UK, with a complete type catalogue". European Journal of Taxonomy (141). doi:10.5852/ejt.2015.141. ISSN 2118-9773.
  8. Srivastava, G.K. (1969). "On two new species of Dermaptera from India (Dermaptera)". Eos: Revista española de entomología. 44: 425–431.
  9. Stiewe, Martin B.D. (2009). "Dysaulophthalma gen. et. sp. n. A new praying mantis from southern India (Dictyoptera: Mantodea: Tarachodidae)" (PDF). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine. 145: 51–60.
  10. Roy, R.; Stiewe, M. B. D. (2016). "Révision du genre afrotropicalCalamothespisWerner 1907 (Mantodea : Toxoderinae)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. Nouvelle Série. 52 (1): 26–48. doi:10.1080/00379271.2016.1190668. S2CID 194498316.
  11. Polhemus, D.A.; Polhemus, J.T. (1988). "The Aphelocheirinae of tropical Asia (Heteroptera: Naucoridae)". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 36 (2): 167–300.
  12. Ghate, H.V.; Sarode, B. (2019). "On the rediscovery of Onychomesa susainathani, an emesine bug endemic to India (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae)". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 11 (3): 13395–13401. doi:10.11609/jott.4546.11.3.13395-13401.
  13. Mukherjee, Paramita; Ambrose, Dunston P.; Hassan, M. E.; Biswas, B. (2015-01-05). "A new species of Stenolemus Signoret (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) from India". Zootaxa. 3904 (1): 116–22. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3904.1.7. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 25660775.
  14. Löbl, Ivan (1971). "Zwei neue Arten der Gattung Scaphidium 01. von Sud Indien (Coleoptera, Scaphidiidae)". Opuscula Zoologica (Muenchen) (118): 1–3.
  15. Frey, G. (1972). "Neue Sericinen aus Indien und Indochina, sowie Abbildungen von Parameren bekannter Arten (Col., Scarab., Melolonthina)". Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey Tutzing bei München. 23: 186–216.
  16. Ramamurthy, V.V.; Nathan, Britto P.; Anand, R. K. Anand (1992). "Further taxonomic studies on Myllocerus with new synonymy of Hyperstylus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)". Oriental Insects. 26 (1): 119–152. doi:10.1080/00305316.1992.10432244.
  17. Borowiec, Lech; Takizawa, Haruo (1991). "Notes on Chrysomelid beetles (Coleoptera) of India and its neighboring areas. Part 10". Japan J. Ent. 59 (3): 637–654.
  18. Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2018). "New and little known species of Lycostomus Motschulsky, 1861(Coleoptera: Lycidae) from southern Asia". Russian Entomol. J. 27 (4): 371–380. doi:10.15298/rusentj.27.4.04.
  19. Háva, Jiří (2020). "Distributional notes on some Nosodendridae (Coleoptera) - XXII.A new species of Nosodendron (Nosodendron) from India". Natura Somogyiensis. 35: 11–14. doi:10.24394/NatSom.2020.35.11.
  20. Pauly, Alain (2009). "Classification des Nomiinae de la Région Orientale, de Nouvelle-Guinée et des îles de l'Océan Pacifique (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae)" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie. 79: 151–229.
  21. Pauly, Alain (2001). "Ipomalictus PAULY, 1999, sous-genre de Lasioglossum, nouveau pour la Region Orientale, avec des notes sur quelques especes afrotropicales (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Entomologie. 71: 145–154.
  22. Mason, W. R. M. (1962). "Some New Asiatic Species of Exenterini (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) with Remarks on Generic Limits". The Canadian Entomologist. 94 (12): 1273–1296. doi:10.4039/ent941273-12.
  23. Lopes, HS (1961). "A contribution to the knowledge of the genus Boettcherisca Rohdendorf 1937 (Diptera : Sarcophagidae)". Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz. 59 (1): 69–82. doi:10.1590/S0074-02761961000100008. PMID 13763427.
  24. Lopes, H. de Souza; Kano, Rokuro (1969). "Three new species of Sarcosolomonia Baranov, 1938 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)" (PDF). Pacific Insects. 11 (1): 181–185.
  25. Joseph, A.N.T.; Parui, P. (1981). "New and little-known Indian Asilidae (Diptera) V The genera Laphria, Maira and Orthogonis, with descriptions of nine new species". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 12 (2): 213–222. doi:10.1163/187631281794709926.
  26. Joseph, A.N.T.; Parui, P. (1976). "new and little-known Indian Asilidae (Diptera) I. Key to Indian Stenopogon Loew with descriptions of five new species". Ent. Scand. 7 (2): 103–108. doi:10.1163/187631276X00199.
  27. Prendini, Lorenzo; Loria, Stephanie F. (2020). "Systematic revision of the Asian forest scorpions (Heterometrinae Simon, 1879), revised suprageneric classification of Scorpionidae Latreille, 1802, and revalidation of Rugodentidae Bastawade et al., 2005". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 442 (442). doi:10.1206/0003-0090.442.1.1. S2CID 222348199.
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  29. Mandl, Karl; Wiesner, J. (1974). "Neue Cicindelidae-formen aus Asien und Afrika: Cicindela nathanae, Prothyma leprieueri reductesignata und Derocrania indica" (PDF). Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Osterr. Entomologen. 26: 93–97.
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