Caucasian Spiders

This page lists some of the arachnologists who have worked on Caucasian spiders in the past.

Azerbaijan

Peter Mikhailovitch Dunin (1952-1998, Baku)

P. Dunin worked on the spiders of Azerbaijan, especially on haplogyne taxa.

France

Eugene Simon (1848-1924, Paris)

Georgia

Tamara Mkheidze (1915-2007, Tbilisi)

T. Mkheidze published articles on the spiders of Georgia between 1941 and 2006. She described over 30 new species from Georgia and compiled her knowledge on spiders in a late monography in 1997. Her spider collection is curated at the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi.

Obituaries:

• Marusik Y. M. (in press): Tamara Severyanovna Mkheidze 1915-2007. – Arthropoda Selecta 16 (3)
• Marusik Y. & S. Otto (in press): 70 years of Arachnology in Georgia: Tamara S. Mkheidze (1915-2007). Newsl. Br. arachnol. Soc.
• Otto Stefan, Vera Pkhakadze, Arnold Gegechkori (2008): 70 Jahre Arachnologie in Georgien: Tamara S. Mkheidze (1915 – 2007), Arachnologische Mitteilungen 35: 72-75. [full-text pdf (in German)]

Germany

Ludwig Koch (1825-1908, Nuremburg)

Russia

Dmitri Estratevitch Charitonov (1896-1970, Perm)

D. Charitonov was one of the founders of arachnology in Russia and the whole USSR. He contributed alot to the knowledge of Caucasian spiders by working on cave spiders in the Transcaucasus and by introducing the Georgian arachnologist Tamara Mkheidze to arachnology.

Sergei Spassky (Novocherkessk)

Alexander Stepanovitch Utochkin (1924-1992, Perm)

A. Utochkin was a spider taxonomist who mainly worked on the spider family Thomisidae of the USSR. Together with Tamara Mkheidze he worked on Caucasian species of the genus Xysticus.