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The Epiprocta Lohmann, 1996 is one of the two extant suborders of the Odonata
Odonata

Odonata is an Order of insects, encompassing Dragonfly and Damselfly . The word dragonfly is also sometimes used to refer to all Odonata. The term odonate has been coined to provide an English language name for the group as a whole, but is not in common usage; most Odonata enthusiasts avoid ambiguity by using the term true dragon...
 (the order
Order (biology)

In Biological classification used in biology, the order is a taxonomic rank between class and family . The superorder is a rank between class and 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.






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The Epiprocta Lohmann, 1996 is one of the two extant suborders of the Odonata
Odonata

Odonata is an Order of insects, encompassing Dragonfly and Damselfly . The word dragonfly is also sometimes used to refer to all Odonata. The term odonate has been coined to provide an English language name for the group as a whole, but is not in common usage; most Odonata enthusiasts avoid ambiguity by using the term true dragon...
 (the order
Order (biology)

In Biological classification used in biology, the order is a taxonomic rank between class and family . The superorder is a rank between class and 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.