Abstract
D. setosimentum and ochrobasis are a pair of very close, partly sympatric species endemic to Hawaii island. Males of the two species differ strikingly in wing-pattern and there are altitudinal and breeding-site differences. Similarity indices have been calculated for both chromosomal (C) ald allozymic (A) variants. Within the main populations of each species both kinds of data give coefficients above 0.98. Interspecific comparison of the main populations shows 0.66 (C) and 0.79 (A). An isolated population of ochrobasis from Kohala Volcano (Ohu), when compared with setosimentum, shows 0.68 (C) and 0.98 (A). Chromosomes are thus much more sensitive than allozymes in distinguishing these species; the same is true in the case of D. silvestris and heteroneura from the same forests. These morphologically distinct species, when compared, show 0.96 (A). All four species appear to be very new in the historical sense. In one area, about 2% of wild-caught D. setosimentum/ochrobasis are interspecific hybrids although adequate samples indicate that the separate gene pools have not broken down. The specific names should be retained but the two entities are perhaps best described as quite advanced semispecies in which reproductive isolation in nature is now nearly complete.
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