- Tamara Mkheidze
Tamara Mkheidze (December 22, 1915 in
Kutaisi - April 11, 2007 inTbilisi ; Georgian: თამარ მხეიძე) was a Georgian arachnologist.Life
Tamara Mkheidze grew up in
Kutaisi (Georgia) and later studiedzoology at theTbilisi 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 then forty new species ofspider s and harvestmen.Publications
Mkheidze, Tamara (1997): Georgian Spiders — Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review. Tbilisi University Press. Tbilisi, 390 pp. [Georgian, Russian Abstract]
External links
* A German obituary at [http://caucasus-spiders.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/2008_Otto_MkheidzeNekrolog.pdf www.caucasus-spiders.info] .
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