HabitatMech

insect air sac

habitatmech:GOLD.3982893194 ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

An open tracheal system trachea which is dilated, thin-walled, air-filled, and readily compressible because its taenidia are reduced or absent. — HabitatMech

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
SourceLabel / pathAssertionsUnit
GOLD Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Respiratory system > Trachea > Air sacs —

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Curation

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  1. CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-08-16 · claude-opus-5

    Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. Sibling-path review (#12): grounding the bird 'Air sacs' concept made this one's sweep stale, but UBERON's air sacs are ALL vertebrate — UBERON:0009060 is defined as extensions of the lungs of birds, and every sibling term is avian or cetacean. The path is Insects > Respiratory system > Trachea, where an air sac is a tracheal dilation. UBERON has no insect air sac. Path: Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Respiratory system > Trachea > Air sacs (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.3982893194)

  2. DEFINED 2026-09-10 · codex-gpt-5

    Defined as 'insect air sac' under UBERON:0003127 'open tracheal system trachea'. Definition authored from the record's committed deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full; no new paid research was commissioned. GOLD's Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Respiratory system > Trachea > Air sacs leaf denotes insect tracheal air sacs, not avian lung air sacs under UBERON:0009060, cetacean nasal air sacs under UBERON:0013175, swim bladders, honey sacs, air sac primordia, or vertebrate tracheae. UBERON:0003127 'open tracheal system trachea' is the tightest vendored genus because UBERON:6005043 'insect trachea' over-asserts tubular morphology for irregular punctate sacs and BTO:0003870 'insect tracheal system' names the whole system rather than the sac. No causal graph was added because the report found larval Drosophila tracheal-microbiome evidence and metazoan air-sac parasite evidence, but no characterized microbial community sampled from insect air sacs themselves.

Provenance

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