Running Metaphlan....Total species selected from prescreen: 0

I have Illumina metagenomic shotgun sequence data in fastq format (quality controlled paired-end R1 and R2 files were converted to a single file running cat). Metagenomic DNA was isolated from a lepidopteran insect’s gut.
Now, when I ran $ humann --input myinput.fastq --output humann3_output, it showed No species were selected from the prescreen.
Because of this the custom ChocoPhlAn database is empty.
This will result in zero species-specific gene families and pathways.

Below is the log.
Is there any problem with my input data? Pls guide me.

08/14/2021 06:53:09 PM - humann.humann - INFO: Running humann v3.0.0
08/14/2021 06:53:09 PM - humann.humann - INFO: Output files will be written to: /home/researchscholar/Analysis_new/Shotgun/humann3/humann3_output
08/14/2021 06:53:09 PM - humann.humann - INFO: Writing temp files to directory: /home/researchscholar/Analysis_new/Shotgun/humann3/humann3_output/trimmed_SLG_humann_temp
08/14/2021 06:53:09 PM - humann.utilities - INFO: File ( /home/researchscholar/Analysis_new/Shotgun/humann3/trimmed_SLG.fastq ) is of format: fastq
08/14/2021 06:53:09 PM - humann.humann - INFO: Removing spaces from identifiers in input file
08/14/2021 06:55:47 PM - humann.utilities - DEBUG: Check software, metaphlan, for required version, 3.0
08/14/2021 06:55:56 PM - humann.utilities - INFO: Using metaphlan version 3.0
08/14/2021 06:55:56 PM - humann.utilities - DEBUG: Check software, bowtie2, for required version, 2.2
08/14/2021 06:55:56 PM - humann.utilities - INFO: Using bowtie2 version 2.4
08/14/2021 06:55:56 PM - humann.humann - INFO: Search mode set to uniref90 because a uniref90 translated search database is selected
08/14/2021 06:55:56 PM - humann.utilities - DEBUG: Check software, diamond, for required version, 0.9.36
08/14/2021 06:55:56 PM - humann.utilities - INFO: Using diamond version 2.0.8
08/14/2021 06:55:56 PM - humann.config - INFO:
Run config settings:

DATABASE SETTINGS
nucleotide database folder = /home/researchscholar/Analysis_new/Shotgun/humann3/chocophlan/
protein database folder = /home/researchscholar/Analysis_new/Shotgun/humann3/uniref/
pathways database file 1 = /home/researchscholar/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/humann/data/pathways/metacyc_reactions_level4ec_only.uniref.bz2
pathways database file 2 = /home/researchscholar/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/humann/data/pathways/metacyc_pathways_structured_filtered
utility mapping database folder = /home/researchscholar/Analysis_new/Shotgun/humann3/utility_mapping

RUN MODES
resume = False
verbose = False
bypass prescreen = False
bypass nucleotide index = False
bypass nucleotide search = False
bypass translated search = False
translated search = diamond
threads = 1

SEARCH MODE
search mode = uniref90
nucleotide identity threshold = 0.0
translated identity threshold = 80.0

ALIGNMENT SETTINGS
bowtie2 options = --very-sensitive
diamond options = --top 1 --outfmt 6
evalue threshold = 1.0
prescreen threshold = 0.01
translated subject coverage threshold = 50.0
translated query coverage threshold = 90.0
nucleotide subject coverage threshold = 50.0
nucleotide query coverage threshold = 90.0

PATHWAYS SETTINGS
minpath = on
xipe = off
gap fill = on

INPUT AND OUTPUT FORMATS
input file format = fastq
output file format = tsv
output max decimals = 10
remove stratified output = False
remove column description output = False
log level = DEBUG

08/14/2021 06:55:56 PM - humann.store - DEBUG: Initialize Alignments class instance to minimize memory use
08/14/2021 06:55:56 PM - humann.store - DEBUG: Initialize Reads class instance to minimize memory use
08/14/2021 06:56:12 PM - humann.humann - INFO: Load pathways database part 1: /home/researchscholar/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/humann/data/pathways/metacyc_reactions_level4ec_only.uniref.bz2
08/14/2021 06:56:13 PM - humann.humann - INFO: Load pathways database part 2: /home/researchscholar/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/humann/data/pathways/metacyc_pathways_structured_filtered
08/14/2021 06:56:13 PM - humann.search.prescreen - INFO: Running metaphlan …
08/14/2021 06:56:13 PM - humann.utilities - DEBUG: Using software: /home/researchscholar/anaconda3/bin/metaphlan
08/14/2021 06:56:13 PM - humann.utilities - INFO: Execute command: /home/researchscholar/anaconda3/bin/metaphlan /home/researchscholar/Analysis_new/Shotgun/humann3/humann3_output/trimmed_SLG_humann_temp/tmp12mq9uc3/tmp1wb29re0 -t rel_ab -o /home/researchscholar/Analysis_new/Shotgun/humann3/humann3_output/trimmed_SLG_humann_temp/trimmed_SLG_metaphlan_bugs_list.tsv --input_type fastq --bowtie2out /home/researchscholar/Analysis_new/Shotgun/humann3/humann3_output/trimmed_SLG_humann_temp/trimmed_SLG_metaphlan_bowtie2.txt
08/14/2021 07:07:46 PM - humann.utilities - DEBUG: b’’
08/14/2021 07:07:46 PM - humann.humann - INFO: TIMESTAMP: Completed prescreen : 693 seconds
08/14/2021 07:07:46 PM - humann.search.prescreen - INFO: Total species selected from prescreen: 0
08/14/2021 07:07:46 PM - humann.search.prescreen - DEBUG:

No species were selected from the prescreen.
Because of this the custom ChocoPhlAn database is empty.
This will result in zero species-specific gene families and pathways.

08/14/2021 07:07:46 PM - humann.humann - INFO: TIMESTAMP: Completed custom database creation : 0 seconds
08/14/2021 07:07:46 PM - humann.humann - DEBUG: Custom database is empty
08/14/2021 07:07:46 PM - humann.store - DEBUG: Initialize Reads class instance to minimize memory use

Any help is much appreciated.
Thank you.

It might be that (unfortunately) we just don’t have marker genes for any species in that sample (because they are not well characterized). If true, I would recommend running HUMAnN in UniRef50 mode rather than UniRef90. Although HUMAnN will do all it’s work during translated search (since no known species were identified), you can use the infer_taxonomy script to attach approximate taxonomy to the resulting gene families.