Tamara Mkheidze
Tamara Severyanovna Mkheidze | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 December 1915 |
| Died | 11 April 2007 (aged 91) Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Other name | Tamara Mcheidze |
| Occupation | Arachnologist |
| Years active | 1941–2006 (publications) |
| Known for | Arachnology in Georgia and the Caucasus |
| Spouse | Lavrosi Kutubidze |
Tamara Mkheidze (Georgian: თამარ მხეიძე; December 22, 1915, Kutaisi – April 11, 2007, Tbilisi) was a Georgian arachnologist. Her name is also spelt Tamara Mcheidze,[1] including in the World Spider Catalog.[2]
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.[3]
She was married to the limnologist Lavrosi Kutubidze.[3]
Activities
Tamara Mkheidze was the first arachnologist from the Caucasus region.[3] 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.[4] As of April 2026, the World Spider Catalog lists 37 names of spider taxa of which she is the author or co-author.[2]
A species she initially described as Gnaphosa caucasica in 1997 had to have a replacement name as the name had already been used in 1982. It was given the name Gnaphosa mcheidzeae.[5]
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]
References
- ↑ Tiunov, Artyom & Ustinova, Anastasiya L. (2025). "A revalidation and redescription of the orb-web spider Araniella tbilisiensis (Mcheidze 1997) (Araneae: Araneidae)". Caucasiana. 4: 195–201. doi:10.3897/caucasiana.4.e173656.
- 1 2 "Search for Author Mcheidze". World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 2026-04-18.
- 1 2 3 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).
- ↑ Mikhailov, K.G. (1998). Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of the territories of the former Soviet Union. Addendum 1. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. p. 25.
External links
- A German obituary: "70 Jahre Arachnologie in Georgien: Tamara S. Mkheidze (1915 – 2007)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-21.