insect pupa-associated environment
An animal-associated environment which is determined by a holometabolous insect in its pupal stage, the non-feeding metamorphic stage between the last larval instar and the adult.
Source attestations
| Source | Label / path | Assertions | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOLD | Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Pupa |
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Broader habitats
- animal-associated environment
ENVO:01001002 - insect-associated environment
habitatmech:GOLD.dba2a83b95
Related terms
- pupa
UBERON:0003143
Also called
- Pupa
Curation
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CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. UBERON:0003143 'pupa' kept as an xref. Life-stage review (#112), applying the rule #114 settled: the whole host ORGANISM gets its own identity plus an <X>-associated environment term, while PARTS of a host ground to the anatomy term as gut, skin and lung already do. A larva, pupa, prepupa or embryo is the whole organism at a stage, not a part of one, so UBERON:0003143 'pupa' is the organism rather than the place — the same shape as Mollusca, Porifera and the host clades. Kept as an xref (#99); the concept keeps its own identity as a term-request candidate.This is the line that makes both calls fall out of one rule, rather than an exception for terms that happen to live in UBERON: a cocoon is a STRUCTURE an insect builds and stays grounded, because it is not the organism. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.da1f99888c)
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DEFINED
Defined as 'insect pupa-associated environment' under ENVO:01001002 'animal-associated environment'. 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 > Pupa source denotes a holometabolous insect acting as a whole-host microbial habitat under #112/#114, not UBERON:0003143 or BTO:0001143 organism-at-stage identities, UBERON:0013198 cocoon, a puparium, a narrower chrysalis or tumbler subtype, pupation substrate, an insect food product, or a life-cycle interval. ENVO:01001002 is the tightest vendored genus until insect-associated environment is minted, and the source-inherited HabitatMech parent preserves the narrower insect restriction; GOLD has no direct or child assertions under Pupa, but the concept is structurally load-bearing for Cocoon and Whole body children and the pupal microbiome literature documents the non-feeding metamorphic host as a distinct habitat. Insect Meconium grounding is tracked separately in #309.