The Epiprocta Lohmann, 1996 is one of the two extant suborders of the Odonata (the order to which dragonflies and damselflies belong). It is a relatively recently-proposed suborder, having been created to accommodate the inclusion of the Anisozygoptera. The latter has been shown to be not a natural suborder but rather a paraphyletic collection of lineages (Lohman 1996, Rehn 2003), so it has been combined with the previous suborder Anisoptera, the well-known dragonflies, into the Epiprocta. The old suborders Anisoptera is now an infraorder within the Epiprocta, whereas the "anisozygopterans" now included here form the infraorder Epiophlebioptera.
References
- Lohmann, H. {1996): Das phylogenetische System der Anisoptera (Odonata). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 106(9): 209-266.
- Rehn, A. C. (2003): Phylogenetic analysis of higher-level relationships of Odonata. Systematic Entomology 28(2): 181-240. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3113.2003.00210.x PDF fulltext
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