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Tamara Mkheidze ( Georgian: თამარ მხეიძე; December 22, 1915, Kutaisi – April 11, 2007, Tbilisi) was a Georgian arachnologist.
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.
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]