Tamara Mkheidze ( ka, თამარ მხეიძე; December 22, 1915,

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– April 11, 2007,

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) was a Georgian arachnologist.

Life

Tamara Mkheidze grew up in

( Georgia) and later studied

zoology Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

at the

Tbilisi State University Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი ''Ivane Javaxishvi ...

. She worked there as a lecturer until 1990 and was active after that as an arachnologist. She was married to the

limnologist Limnology ( ; from Greek λίμνη, ''limne'', "lake" and λόγος, ''logos'', "knowledge") is the study of inland aquatic ecosystems. The study of limnology includes aspects of the biological, chemical, physical, and geological characteristi ...

Lavrosi Kutubidze.

Activities

Tamara Mkheidze was the first arachnologist from the

Caucasus The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range, have historically ...

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

spider Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species ...

s and harvestmen.

Publications

* Mkheidze T. S. (1941). A study on spiders distributed in Georgia. - Proceeding of the Tbilisi State University, 21: 99-104.

n Georgian N, or n, is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''en'' (pronounced ), plural ''ens''. History ...

* 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. eorgian, Russian Abstract

References

External links

* A German obituary a
www.caucasus-spiders.info
1915 births 2007 deaths Soviet arachnologists Scientists from Georgia (country) Women zoologists 20th-century zoologists 20th-century women scientists {{Georgia-scientist-stub