For extinct groups, see text Epiprocta is one of the two extant suborders of the Odonata, which contains living dragonflies (Anisoptera), as well as Epiophlebioptera, which has a single known living genus Epiophlebia.

Crown group Epiprocta first appeared during the Early Jurassic.

In Lohmann's original circumscription of the Epiprocta he also included the Tarsophlebiidae in it but Rehn (2003) placed it among the Zygoptera.

[3] Cladogram of Epiprocta after Rehn et al. 2003:[4] Zygoptera (damselflies) Epiophlebioptera †Isophlebioptera †Heterophlebioptera †Stenophlebioptera †Aeschnidioptera Anisoptera (dragonflies) Epiproctophora is used as the clade containing all odonatans living and extinct more closely related to living epiproctans than to damselflies.

Cladogram of Odonata including Epiproctophora by Deregnaucourt et al.