Tamara Mkheidze Explained

Tamara Mkheidze (Georgian: თამარ მხეიძე; December 22, 1915, Kutaisi  - April 11, 2007, Tbilisi) was a Georgian arachnologist.

Life

Tamara Mkheidze grew up in Kutaisi (Georgia) and later studied zoology at the Tbilisi State University. She worked there as a lecturer until 1990 and was active after that as an arachnologist.

She was married to the limnologist Lavrosi Kutubidze.

Activities

Tamara Mkheidze was the first arachnologist from the Caucasus region.^[1] Her main research dealt with the arachnofauna of her homeland Georgia. In her more than thirty publications she described more than forty new species of spiders and harvestmen.^[2]

Publications

• Mkheidze T. S. (1941). A study on spiders distributed in Georgia. - Proceeding of the Tbilisi State University, 21: 99-104. [in Georgian]
• Mkheidze, T. S. (1946). New spider species in Georgia. Bulletin of the Georgian State Museum Tbilisi, 13(A): 285-302.
• Mkheidze, Tamara (1997): Georgian Spiders — Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review. Tbilisi University Press. Tbilisi, 390 pp. [Georgian, Russian Abstract]

External links

• A German obituary at www.caucasus-spiders.info.

Notes and References

1. Marusik. Yuri M.. Otto. Stefan. 2008. 70 years of Arachnology in Georgia: Tamara S. Mkheidze (1915-2007). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society. 112. 6–8.
2. Marusik. Yuri M.. 2008. Tamara Severyanovna Mkheidze 1915-2007. Arthropoda Selecta. 16. 3.