Tamara Severyanovna Mkheidze

Tamara Mkheidze ( December 22, 1915, Kutaisi – April 11, 2007, Tbilisi) was a Georgian arachnologist. Her name is also spelt Tamara Mcheidze, including in the World Spider Catalog.

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. 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. , the World Spider Catalog lists 37 names of spider taxa of which she is the author or co-author.

Selected 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]