Tamara Mkheidze

Tamara Mkheidze (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. 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.

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]