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TransmissionEngine: modification to status compare function for case a==b

#5177 fixing tests which where broken after rebasing the TransmissionEngine-speedup on develop
- lower rank limit of for the aggregation was too high

fixing bugs related to the rank intervall in the TransmissionEngineDistribution

solving multiple problems in TransmissionEngine

• avoiding LIE by fetching the parentAreas for each batch
• skipping taxa not in specified rank interval

performance improvement

• avoiding cast
• avoiding sorting the list of taxa

performance logging

adding classificationLookup method to serice

attempt to reduce the overhead imposed by database access

typo

#5909 revert unwanted commit