Abstract.Phlebotomine sandflies were surveyed in two ecologically contrasted areas, the northern moist and southern wet tropical forests, of the Territorio Federal Amazonas, Venezuela.Three new taxa and twenty‐one new records were added to the previously known species list for Venezuelan sandflies, which now totals eighty species. Both sexes ofLutzomyia (Psychodopygus) killickisp.n.,L.(Trichophoryomyia) bettiniisp.n.,L.(Nyssomyia) olmeca reductasubsp.n.and and the females ofL.bernaleiOsornoet al., Brumptomyia pintoiCosta Lima andL.begonae(Ortiz&Torres) are described and illustrate