metasoma environment

habitatmech:GOLD.93f0f7b66d ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·UNGROUNDED REVIEWED

An animal-associated environment which consists of the metasoma of an apocritan hymenopteran, the posterior tagma behind the propodeum that includes the petiole and gaster, sampled as an intact body region rather than as dissected organs. — 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
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
GOLD	Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Abdomen > Metasoma	—

Broader habitats

animal-associated environment ENVO:01001002
Abdomen habitatmech:GOLD.c6b0b54290

Related terms

Terms a source linked to this concept without this record claiming to be one of them, or to be narrower than one. A cross-reference, not a grounding.

HAO:0000626

Curation

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CONFIRM_UNGROUNDED 2026-09-18 · codex-gpt-5
Confirmed UNGROUNDED: no ontology term fits this concept. HAO:0000626 'metasoma' kept as an xref. Gaster definition research also reviewed this parent source: GOLD's Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Abdomen > Metasoma path denotes an apocritan hymenopteran abdominal tagma and is a real body-region habitat, not UBERON:0000916 'abdomen' or a chelicerate metasoma. No vendored ENVO, UBERON, FOODON, BTO, or PO term names a metasoma environment; HAO:0000626 'metasoma' is an exact unvendored anatomy match retained only as an xref until HAO is vendored or ENVO gains an environment class. (source concept habitatmech:GOLD.93f0f7b66d)
DEFINED 2026-09-18 · codex-gpt-5
Defined as 'metasoma environment' under ENVO:01001002 'animal-associated environment'. Definition authored from the Gaster record's committed deep-research report under research/habitats/, read in full; no new paid research was commissioned. GOLD's Host-associated > Arthropoda: Insects > Abdomen > Metasoma source is interpreted as the metasoma of an apocritan hymenopteran rather than a generic insect abdomen, UBERON:0000916 'abdomen' as a vertebrate body subdivision, or a scorpion/chelicerate metasoma. ENVO:01001002 'animal-associated environment' is the tightest vendored genus until insect-associated environment and insect body-region environment intermediates exist; HAO:0000626 exactly names the hymenopteran anatomy and stays only as an external xref because it is an unvendored anatomy term rather than an environment identity.

Provenance

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