Tamara Mkheidze

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.

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.