Jacqueline Heurtault

Jacqueline Heurtault (born April 6, 1936 in Paris , † January 25, 2000 in Paris) was a French arachnologist and speleologist .

Her work focused on the cave-dwelling arachnids , the flagellated spiders , flagellated scorpions and palpebras , as well as the system of pseudoscorpions . In her work she strived for a holistic view of species, including their anatomy, ecology, systematics, sexual behavior and the interaction of different species ( probiosis ).

Jacqueline Heurtault first investigated the effects of colchicine in tissue transplantation in mice at the Institute for Comparative Anatomy under RM May at Orsay University in Paris . In 1962 she moved to the Laboratoire de Zoologie (Arthropodes) of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), where she wrote her thesis under the guidance of Max Vachon . In 1972 she presented her doctoral thesis on the subject of “Contribution to the biological and anatomical-physiological knowledge of the pseudoscorpions”.

Since 1973 she has been a lecturer and in 1988 she was appointed head of the laboratory . In 1992 Jacqueline Heurtault was appointed professor and, together with Max Goyffonn, led a postgraduate course for poisonous animals at the MNHN.

She first carried out research on cave-dwelling spiders in the tunnels of the Paris subway. She also conducted research in the departments of Herault, Gard, Bouches-du Rhône, Ardèche and Corsica, as well as in Europe, Switzerland and Greece, but also in Algeria. Heurtault discovered several new types of pseudoscorpions that are considered relics. In addition to paleobiogeographical findings, she also made contributions to the systematics of arachnids. This resulted in a large number of specialist articles. She last published her knowledge of the world's cave-dwelling pseudoscorpions in 1994 in the Encyclopaedia Biospeologica .

Jacqueline Heurtault has been Deputy General Secretary since 1968 and General Secretary of the International Center for Documentation Arachnologist (CIDA) since 1983 , from which the International Arachnological Society (ISA) emerged in 1998 thanks to her efforts . Together with Françoise Saunier (until his death in 1985) she also published the World Directory of Arachnologist, an annual list and appraisal of arachnology work carried out worldwide.

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SURNAME	Heurtault, Jacqueline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French arachnologist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 6, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	January 25, 2000
Place of death	Paris