Tamara Mkheidze
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Tamara Mkheidze (December 22, 1915 in Kutaisi – April 11, 2007 in Tbilisi; Georgian: თამარ მხეიძე) 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]
References[]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Marusik, Yuri M. (2008). "Tamara Severyanovna Mkheidze 1915-2007". Arthropoda Selecta. 16 (3).
External links[]
- A German obituary at www.caucasus-spiders.info.
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