The following list of dragonflies and damselflies for Lincoln County is the result of the first systematic survey of the Odonata for Lincoln County. Also, this is the first systematic survey of any county of New Mexico made in over 50 years. The dragonflies and damselflies have not been systematically studied in any geographical area of New Mexico since Harold B. Freshley's study of the upper Pecos in 1945.

Those specimens collected this year were added to the checklist of New Mexico Odonata by Dr. Mary Alice Evans which was published by the Denver Museum of Natural History in 1995. The specimens were confirmed by Dr. John C. Abbott of the University of North Texas and the Lincoln County specimens are now in that collection. Hetaerina titia (Drury), an amethyst winged damselfly, is a new state record and was confirmed by Dr. Thomas W. Donnelly at the State University of New York and Director of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas.

Lincoln, Chaves, and Eddy Counties are proving to be the most biologically diverse areas for dragonflies in New Mexico and eventually may show the greatest diversity of any area in North America. For example the British Isles show a total of 27 species of dragonflies, yet Chaves County has over 31 confirmed species. Newmans Lake and the Everglades, florida's most diverse areas, show only 21 localized species although, their state totals are very much higher than that of New Mexico. This is all ver interesting, of course.